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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060709
Author:JOHN SUTHERLAND

If there were a Nobel Prize for the most successful creative writing class ever, it would have to go to that held at the Villa Diodati, in Switzerland, in the record-breakingly wet summer of 1816.

Among those attending were Lord Byron (mad, bad, etc), his current mistress (sad, sad, etc), Percy Bysshe Shelley and the 18-year-old he had left his wife and children for, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (soon to add the surname 'Shelley' to that distinguished literary pedigree), and the poets' literary doctor friend, John Polidori.

Tiring of the German gothic shockers which was all the villa had on ...

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