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John William Polidori

English writer and physician

John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampiregenre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first published modern vampire story. Although the story was at first erroneously credited to Lord Byron, both Byron and Polidori affirmed that the author was Polidori.^[1]

Family

John William Polidori was born on 7 September 1795 in Westminster, the eldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and his wife Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He had three brothers and four sisters.^[2]

His sister Frances Polidori married the exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and thus Polidori, posthumously, became the uncle of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, and Christina Georgina Rossetti. William Michael Rossetti published Polidori's jo

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John William Polidori was born in the Soho area of London in 1795. His father was Gaetano Polidori, an Italian writer and scholar who emigrated to London. His mother was an English governess named Anna Maria Pierce.

As a young boy, Polidori went to study at the Catholic Ampleforth College. Later his father sent him to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his degree as a medical doctor at the age of nineteen, after writing his thesis on sleepwalking.

In 1816 Polidori began working as a personal physician for the famous English romantic poet Lord Byron. He accompanied Byron on his travels through Europe, in exile from a messy divorce and multiple accusations of romantic affairs in England. Polidori was present at Geneva's Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816, along with Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairemont. It is during this time that Polidori wrote The Vampyre, based on a story that Byron told during the group's supernatural story contest.

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(1795-1821) UK medical doctor who became the personal physician of Lord Byron (see Icons) in 1816; as an author his work is of more interest to the fantastic in general [for fuller entry on Polidori see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] than for its relevance to anything like sf. He is relevant initially for his participation – along with Bryon, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley – in an evening gathering in 1816 at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, where they had been trapped by a storm, and told each other stories (for details, see Byron; Mary Shelley). Afterwards, Byron suggested that all four of them write similar stories of their own, and read them aloud to one another. This sequel may not have in fact occurred; but all four did write, or began to write, tales initiated by these unusual circumstances. For an argument that these circumstances contribute to our understanding of the nature of the fantastic in general and of the beginnings of sf in particular, see Club Story. Mary Shelley's tale of cour