The Pre-Raphaelite Painter Whose Uncle Wrote The Vampyre and Whose Mother Preserved the Diary
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's mother Frances was the sister of John Polidori — the physician who wrote *The Vampyre* at Lord Byron's Geneva villa in 1816 and committed suicide three years later. The Polidori family preserved his suppressed Geneva diary through three generations until Rossetti's brother William Michael edited it for publication in 1911.
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