In 1816 Byron went into exile ... an exhibition notes that Byron was one of the earliest critics of Lord Elgin’s seizure of the Parthenon marbles. In “The Curse of Minerva”, Byron savaged ...

In 1816 Byron went into exile ... an exhibition notes that Byron was one of the earliest critics of Lord Elgin’s seizure of the Parthenon marbles. In “The Curse of Minerva", Byron savaged ...

The story was written in 1816 as part of a friendly competition between PB Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori and her. It led to a major shift in the genre of Gothic fiction directing the ...

The story was written in 1816 as part of a friendly competition between PB Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori and her ...

On 27 May 1816, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley met on the shores of Lake Geneva. Byron was accompanied by his doctor, John Polidori, and Shelley by his mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and her step ...

In 1816, the couple, accompanied by Godwin’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, traveled to Switzerland and visited Lord Byron at Villa Diodati. While there, 18-year-old Mary started Frankenstein.

In January 1815, Lord Byron married the clever, virtuous and unshakably high-minded Annabella Milbanke. In January 1816, Annabella left Byron’s London house, taking with her their baby daughter, ...

Literary greats like Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley all stayed in one of the area's magnificent estates – the Villa Diodati – during the summer of 1816. Besides its ...

In the summer of 1816 Mary Shelley was holidaying at the Villa Diodati in Geneva with her friends, who included romantic poets Lord Byron and future husband Percey Byshe Shelley, who she would ...