Poor Polidari - doomed to always be in Byron's shadow.
Originally shared by The Public Domain Review
Happy birthday to John Polidori, born today in London in 1795. As well as being the long-suffering personal physician to Lord Byron, he is also the creator – from that same famed night of ghost-stories in a Lake Geneva villa in 1816 which gave us Shelley's Frankenstein — the first modern vampire story. Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidori and his poet employer lies behind the tale, with Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with today: https://buff.ly/2vOv5zF
