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Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori; 27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886) was a British educator who was the daughter, wife, sister and mother of important writers and artists. She was also a model of the paintings of her son Dante.
In 1821, John Polidori took his own life with prussic acid over gambling debts which was a terrible blow to the Polidori family. Frances Rossetti treasured a Byronic portrait of her handsome brother, now in the National Portrait Gallery, and always displayed it in the family home.
Frances was the daughter of Anna Maria Pierce and Italian exile Gaetano Polidori and sister of John Polidori, author of The Vampyre and Lord Byron"s physician.
This article presents a detailed new analysis of the conception, composition, publication, and immediate reception of John William Polidori’s influential story, ‘The Vampyre’ (1819), first attributed to Lord Byron. Polidori was instrumental in publishing the tale – and did so with a certain guile as part of a larger literary strategy.
29 de oct. de 2021 · Polidori was himself just 20 at the time – he had studied at Edinburgh University from the age of 15 and received his degree as a doctor of medicine in August 1815, aged just 19. He had written a thesis on sleepwalking at university, possibly foreshadowing his fascination with the slightly spooky.
Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form that is recognized today—an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society.
Frances Polidori, nacida como Frances Maria Polidori el 18 de julio de 1932 en Londres, Inglaterra, fue una activista y escritora feminista. Trabajó como secretaria en el movimiento de derechos civiles de Estados Unidos en la década de 1960 y en la década de 1970 se convirtió en miembro de la Asociación Internacional de Mujeres, donde ...
