… could meet, exchange opinions about what they were experiencing, and network. There was something haphazard about these meetings, in that one could never be certain who they might encounter, but these were always ‘quality’ individuals and …
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… circle, two other figures are also distinctly associated to Shelley – Lord Byron and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Their meeting in Switzerland in 1816 at Villa Diodati – a collaborative sociable event that also included Polidori – famously …
… Travelling on honeymoon with her Italian husband, Gabriele Piozzi, from 1784 to 1787, Hester Lynch Piozzi described meeting and conversing with a variety of salonniers in Florence, Rome and Venice. 10 Lady Fremantle (nee Wynne) was r …