"P.B. Shelley" has been executed by Lord Byron before the novel opens, in retribution for his activities as an ultra-radical conspirator, whose followers, "fired to a phrensy by the furious polemics ...

Illuminati Detectives re-imagines the secret lives of the Romantic poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron as sex and drug addled members of the Illuminati sent around Europe to debunk mystical crimes.

who had previously had a fling with Byron in England and who was responsible for introducing the final two guests: the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his lover – by the end of the year, his wife – Mary ...

In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron. All are in exile, self-imposed on ...

One night in 1816 – during a drizzly holiday by Lake Geneva – Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, and their doctor friend John William Polidori told each other improvised ghost stories.

Young Mary struggled to come up with an idea but was inspired after hearing a discussion between Byron and Percy Shelley about galvanismâ the idea that electricity could stimulate life. One of the ...

One of the interesting facts that Byron has is that he formed a friendship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his fiancée, Mary Godwin. Since in a moment of rainy weather, the group ...