They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

Upon his return to England in 1811, Byron stayed in London, not returning to see his mother who had been living in Newstead.

Before Christmas ' escape attempt, Hightower delivered Lena's child in the cabin where Brown and Christmas had been staying before the murder, and Byron arranges for Brown / Burch to come and see her.

The Murwillumbah – Byron Bay – Lismore railway ( opened in 1894 ) was extended to Grafton in 1905 ; for details, see Murwillumbah railway line.

They include Don Quixote and his partner Sancho, Marguerite " Camille " Gautier ( see The Lady of the Camellias ), Casanova, Lord Byron, and Esmeralda ( see The Hunchback of Notre Dame ), among others.

In 1899 he married Judith Blunt, 16th Baroness Wentworth, daughter of the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his wife Anne, 15th Baroness Wentworth and great-granddaughter of Lord Byron ( see the Baron Wentworth for earlier history of this title ).

A few days after the birth, Byron went to his sister's house Swynford Paddocks, Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, to see the child, and wrote, in a letter to Lady Melbourne, his confidante: " Oh, but it is not an ape, and it is worth while " ( a child of an incestuous relationship was thought likely to be deformed ).

She would not see Byron again.

As these episodes featured none of the rest of the regular Tiny Toons cast, other than Furrball and Byron Basset, they may have been a test to see if Elmyra's character could get her own spin-off series, centered around her family.

The Corsair is a tale in verse by Lord Byron published in 1814 ( see 1814 in poetry ), which was extremely popular and influential in its day, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale.

Driver uses a normal singing voice, screams, shouts, occasionally uses death vocals ( not to be confused with band member Jason Byron who contributes vocals in early motW also ), as well as occasionally singing falsetto and using spoken word ( see Kayo Dot ’ s Choirs of the Eye for an example of all the styles listed above ).

Decca immediately wanted to sign Allan, and knowing that Byron was lining up other labels to see Gary, Decca asked them to cancel the second showcase.

A rep from RCA was already booked to see the second showcase the following week, but the " bird-in-hand " deal offer was too tempting for both Byron and Gary, so they committed to the Decca offer.

However, the memories also include that Byron committed incest with his half-sister Augusta Leigh and fathered her daughter, which led to Byron's self-exile and Byron's wife insisting that he must never see Augusta again.

Instead, he was supposed to see movies with Byron to learn about life, but Dove never got to go ; his brother did not have the price of a ticket.

Born Robert John Wilmot, Wilmot-Horton was the only son of Sir Robert Wilmot, 2nd Baronet, of Osmaston, near Derby ( see Wilmot Baronets ), and his first wife Juliana Elizabeth ( née Byron ).

In October 1999, Michael Wilson mounted another revival at the Hartford Stage, with a cast including James Colby ( Kilroy ), Helmar Augustus Cooper ( Gutman ), Rip Torn ( Casanova ), Betty Buckley ( Marguerite Gautier ), Novella Nelson ( Gypsy ), Lisa Leguillou ( Esmeralda ), John Feltch ( Baron de Charlus, Lord Byron and Don Quixote ), Natalie Brown ( Lady Mulligan ) and Nafe Katter ( Lord Mulligan ).

Byron also meets Jastrow's niece, Natalie, and her soon-to-be fiance, Leslie Slote, who works for the Department of State.

Byron is three years younger than Natalie, but catches her attention by heroically saving her uncle from being trampled by a stampeding horse during a festival in Siena.

Byron and Natalie visit her family's native town in Poland, Medzice, for a wedding, which occurs the night prior to the German invasion of Poland.

When Natalie receives the proposal of marriage from Leslie that she has been eagerly awaiting, she realizes that the experience in Poland has changed her heart and that she is now in love with Byron.

After much beating around the bush, she admits this to Byron, who promptly offers his own proposal of marriage, which Natalie accepts.

Rounding out the cast were William Schallert as Patty's father Martin Lane ( Schallert also played Cathy's father Kenneth in a handful of episodes ), Jean Byron as Patty's mother Natalie Lane, Paul O ' Keefe as Patty's brother Ross Lane, and Eddie Applegate as Patty's boyfriend Richard Harrison.

The Lanes ( clockwise from bottom left: Patty Duke as Patty, Jean Byron as Natalie, William Schallert as Martin, and Paul O ' Keefe as Ross )

Byron and Natalie agree that Natalie and Louis and Aaron should wait to get a passport from the US consulate in Marseilles while Byron travels direct to Lisbon and book a room.

She and Byron reunite, and Byron then locates Louis and brings him to Natalie as the book ends.

Since the 18th century, " Orientalist " has been the traditional term for a scholar of Oriental studies ; however the use in English of " Orientalism " to describe the academic subject of " Oriental studies " is rare ; the Oxford English Dictionary cites only one such usage, by Lord Byron in 1812.

Ruby Stevens was the fifth and youngest child of Catherine Ann ( née McPhee ) and Byron E. Stevens ; the couple were working-class, her father a native of Massachusetts and her mother an immigrant from Nova Scotia, Canada.

At times, it was as if he himself was actually experiencing the Romantic tales of Byron in person ; consorting with brigands, corsairs, and peasants.

In the present, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds ; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron.

Chloe is reading newspaper reports on the Byron murder theory as proposed by Bernard, before talking about determinism with Valentine, in a conversation echoing the one between Septimus and Thomasina earlier ; Chloe, however, believes that sex is the force throwing off the universe's ordered plan.

Other works include four symphonies ( No. 1 in C ; No. 2, The Nottingham ; No. 3, Byron Symphony and No. 4, Lascaux Symphony ); Variations, Nocturne and Finale on an English Sea-song, Op.

( 2001 ) " Democracy, Republicanism and Efficiency: The Values of American Politics, 1885 – 1930 ," in Byron Shafer and Anthony Badger, eds, Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775 – 2000 pp 149 – 180 ; online edition

The film starred Karloff as retired horror film actor, Byron Orlok, a thinly disguised version of Karloff himself ; Orlok was facing an end of life crisis, which he resolved through a confrontation with the gunman.

George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron ( 1608 ) was censored when it appeared on the stage, and caused a scandal when the players violated that censorship ; Buck has been associated with the scandal, and it is certainly true that Buck licensed the publication of the censored text later in that year.

Today the Quad Cities community consists of the larger cities of Davenport, Iowa ; Bettendorf, Iowa ; Moline, Illinois ; Rock Island, Illinois ; and East Moline, Illinois, as well as surrounding smaller cities Eldridge, Long Grove, Park View, Blue Grass, Buffalo, Walcott, Maysville, Mount Joy, Pleasant Valley, LeClaire, Panorama Park, and Riverdale in Iowa and Silvis, Milan, Hampton, Carbon Cliff, Port Byron, Andalusia, Coal Valley, and Colona in Illinois.

* History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1623 – 1905, by Francis Byron Greene ; published 1906

Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood ; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit, too.

Central Baptist Church of Lindale is adjacent to Lindale High School ; pastor Byron Howard ( 2011 ).

Author Byron Farwell was mayor of the town for many years ; other mayors included Sandy Muir and Alix Spaith.

* Lord Byron – Harrow School ; and Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire

They set up a new band called Spice ; it was then that David Garrick changed his second name to Byron.

Box and Bolder paid a visit to David Byron with very attractive propositions ; " we couldn't believe it when he said he didn't want to know ", the guitarist remembered.

Heavy use of the vibrato bar necessitated frequent replacements ; Vaughan often had his roadie, Byron Barr, obtain custom stainless steel bars made by Barr's father.

The film received mixed critical reviews, and was a box-office failure ; the film was criticized both for its historical inaccuracies ( the timing of William Lamb's political career, the portrayal of Byron as a tall, handsome man who lacked his characteristic limp ) and for its own ( lack of ) merits.

The distance did not cool Lady Caroline's interest in the poet ; she and Byron corresponded constantly during her exile.