The Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, rented by Lord for the summer of 1816. In the Villa that summer, Mary Shelley would be inspired to write & Byron's doctor John Polidori would write The Vampyre, one of the 1st novels.

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B 1795 John Polidori, Byron's travelling companion & author of The Vampyre (1819). F Gainsford c1816

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