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Lady Allegra

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Aquella que estaba gestándose en la más conocida noche de 1816 en Villa Diodati.
Lord Byron, los Shelley, Frankenstein 🖤

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Lady Allegra @allegrabyron.bsky.social · 26d

«Vivimos tiempos peligrosos». Una investigación en torno a El sueño.
El excelso ensayo de Lorenzo Luengo sobre el enigmático poema El Sueño, de #LordByron.
#RevistaDeLibros
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«Vivimos tiempos peligrosos». Una investigación en torno a El sueño

Considerado durante muchos años, especialmente desde que fue reseñado por sus primeros críticos serios, como uno de los poemas más enigmáticos de Byron, El sueño debe en realidad casi todo su misterio...

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Lady Allegra

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Pregunta para lectores y coleccionistas de libros: ¿consideráis que un libro al que le han pegado en sus páginas el pita antirrobo está dañado?
En mi opinión, totalmente contraria a los trabajadores de la librería, sí lo está y es motivo de devolución. Me niego a quedarme un libro así.

November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Noviembre Nocturno

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Algunos monstruos nacen. Otros se hacen...

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"Frankenstein", La Creación del Monstruo. Homenaje a Mary Shelley - Noviembre Nocturno - Podcast en iVoox

Escucha este episodio de Noviembre Nocturno gratis en iVoox. “Vedme aquí, el desdichado Prometeo, clavado y encadenado contra estas rocas, donde debo permanecer incontables años. Tal es el pago que re...

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November 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM

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Eugène Delacroix

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Episode from The Corsair by Lord Byron https://www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-delacroix/episode-from-the-corsair-by-lord-byron-1831

November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Lady Allegra

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Armenia to present “Ode to Lord Byron” by Zadik Zadikian at 61st Venice Biennale
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Armenia to present “Ode to Lord Byron” by Zadik Zadikian at 61st Venice Biennale - Public Radio of Armenia

Armenia will present “Ode to Lord Byron” by artist Zadik Zadikian at the 61st Venice International A

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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM

Lady Allegra

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“Frankenstein” de Mary Shelley, amb Anna Caballé
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'Frankenstein' de Mary Shelley, amb Anna Caballé

De Nit 12/11/2025

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November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Ruins of Despair

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Shelley's 'Queen Mab' is a political utopia disguised as a fairytale. The fairy queen shows the sleeping Ianthe visions of the past, present, and the future.

The first two are plagued by oppression, injustice, and suffering, caused by monarchies, commerce, and religion.

#WyrdWednesday #poetry

Background image: J.M.W. Turner, 'Queen Mab's Cave' 1846. A rather impressionistic landscape painting by a Romantic Era painter.
Text:
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man;
The subject, not the citizen; for kings
And subjects, mutual foes, forever play
A losing game into each other's hands,
Whose stakes are vice and misery.
P.B. Shelley, 'Queen Mab' 1813

November 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM

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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱

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New Wollstoneblog post! Update on Martha Washington’s copy of ‘Wollstonecraft’s Education’! sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Eileen M. Hunt - November 2025: NEH Scholarly Editions Blog

Update: IDENTIFYING Martha Washington's 1794 copy of 'wollstonecraft's education'—WAS IT THE 1788 DUBLIN EDITION OF 'MRS. WOLLSTONECRAFT'S THOUGHTS ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS'?

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November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Lady Allegra

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Fleur Jaeggy: la vida fuera de la palabra #MartaSerranoJimenez
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Fleur Jaeggy: la vida fuera de la palabra - Zenda

Marta Serrano Jiménez escribe acerca de 'El dedo en la boca' y 'Las estatuas de agua', dos novelas de Fleur Jaeggy editadas por Tusquets.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Lady Allegra

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Cómo Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, sentó las bases de la ética tecnológica hace 200 años
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Cómo Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, sentó las bases de la ética tecnológica hace 200 años

En un verano frustrado, Mary Shelley, una adolescente en Ginebra, escribió la primera novela de ciencia ficción: Frankenstein. En ella unió la alquimia con la electricidad del siglo XIX. Dos siglos de...

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November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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C.W. Reeve

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Nottingham's Newstead Abbey is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, but romantic poetry isn’t the only legacy the famous author left behind. It's said the ghost of Byron’s beloved dog, Boatswain, still roams the estate, searching endlessly for his master...

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Newstead Abbey, a ground old house set in the middle of a country park, photographed in 1975.

Lord Byron's dog, a black and white chap in portrait form.

November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM

Lady Allegra

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OMG

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4K when?

November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM

Lady Allegra

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Gothic Films for an Ithaca November www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

AYSW? | Gothic Films for an Ithaca November

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Emily Brand

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It's Byron family birthday season 🥳🍻

Born OTD, 1722: William, 5th Lord Byron, now known as 'the Wicked Lord'

According to myth, the poet's great-uncle was a villainous, cheating, wife-beating, cousin-murdering, Abbey-wrecking, devil-worshipping orgy enthusiast

(I've yet to confirm the last two)

November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM

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Ruins of Despair

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'Darkness' by Lord Byron depicts the world ending as the Sun dies out. The humankind burns fires in desperate fight against the dark, only to accelerate the destruction.

Assumably written in Villa Diodati during 'The Year Without a Summer' 1816.

#WyrdWednesday #poetry #books #booksky #gothic

The first half of Byron’s poem 'Darkness'.

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black.

November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM

Lady Allegra

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Os presento a Baldomera Larra, hija del escritor decimonónico Mariano José de Larra y pionera en las estafas piramidales.
La Caja de Imposiciones que creó prometía una rentabilidad del 30% mensual, y cuando quebró, dejó 5000 afectados.
#DecimonónicasPioneras
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Baldomera Larra - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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Editorial Deméter

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Nueva entrada en el blog.
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Blog sobre literatura del Romanticismo y Gótica - Editorial Demeter

En nuestro blog sobre literatura del Romanticismo y gótica, podrás encontrar nuestras reflexiones y novedades sobre estos autores que adoramos

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November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Lady Allegra

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Puede que sea una imagen de Lord Byron desconocido: las pistolas en su mesilla eran marca personal del poeta y Byron era mundialmente conocido y estaba de moda en esos años.

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 15d

Here's a Halloween treat, Bluesky: another frontispiece & title page from a novel included in the Houghton Library's recently acquired Jean-Paul Kahn collection of French Gothic fiction: Les Terreurs nocturnes from 1820. #19thc
Oddly, the ghost on the left appears to be tucking its victim into bed.

On the left, black and white engraving showing a ghost at the bedside of a handsome Lord-Byron looking gentleman who's reaching for his pistol. The caption reads "Le fantöme s'élance sur le Gentilhomme et l'entraine dans une trappe." On the right the same ghost on a city street walking past a lamppost, carrying a crucifix and a torch. The caption reads "Je viens chercher ma chair et mes os." CREEPY!

November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Lady Allegra

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Y para todos los días del año…🖤

Mariado @marie1berrie.bsky.social · 15d

Para Samhain voy a recomendar esa maravilla de peli que es “Remando al viento”.

Retrato poético sobre Mary Shelley y la génesis de Frankenstein en “Villa Diodati”, una noche de 1816 junto a Lord Byron, Percy B. Shelley y Polidori.

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Rowing With The Wind 1988 (Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny)

YouTube video by Fule

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November 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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stephanie 💽

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that collar can’t fool me!!!

A frame from Frankenstein (2025) of Oscar Isaac, as Victor Frankenstein, looking into a three-paneled mirror.

November 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM

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stephanie 💽

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del toro just directly recreated lord byron and unfortunately that really works on me

November 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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Ivan Aivazovsky

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Byron visiting mhitarists on island of St. Lazarus in Venice https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/byron-visiting-mhitarists-on-island-of-st-lazarus-in-venice-1899

This artwork by Ivan Aivazovsky depicts the poet Lord Byron visiting the Mekhitarist monks on the island of St. Lazarus in Venice, capturing a moment steeped in historical significance and romantic intrigue. Aivazovsky, renowned for his masterful seascapes, uses light and color to beautifully evoke the serene yet grand atmosphere of Venice's iconic landscape.

November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

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If you thought the story of Frankenstein was intense, wait until you hear about the life of its author.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash.

Buckle up. 🧵⬇️

November 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM