In this week's #TuesdayTreasures film, Esther takes a look at John William Polidori’s 1819 novel 'The Vampyre'.
This novel was originally attributed to Lord Byron, but was actually written by Byron’s doctor Polidori, and along with 'Frankenstein', this was one of the ghost stories written after one fateful night at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva. It became the first modern vampire story.
The Jerwood Centre, our state-of-the-art library and archive next door to Dove Cottage, is home to over 90% of William Wordsworth's original verse manuscripts, Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere journal, and many more letters and journals written by the family. On the shelves of our Reading Room, you will find rare editions by not only Wordsworth, but also his contemporaries: Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft to name a few.
Our art collection of the Lake District includes over 9,000 items, and features works by major artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner.
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