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The Goings-On at the Villa Diodati

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19890903
Author:Brian Aldiss

LORD BYRON'S DOCTOR by Paul West

Doubleday. 277 pp. $19.95

WHAT HAPPENED at the Villa Diodati in 1816, that wet summer? You remember it was there, on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, that Lord Byron established himself, together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (soon to become the second Mrs. Shelley), and Claire Clairmont. Byron was under 30, Mary still in her teens, and the others in their early twenties. Poetry went on there, storytelling, and love-making.

Shelley monopolized Byron, and the poets went off together, exploring the lake. Mary stayed at the ...

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