Characters

  • A painting of Claire Clairmont, pale complexion, dark curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a white muslin ruffed collar

    Claire Clairmont

    Stepsister to Mary. Lively and sharp tongued with a good singing voice , she hungers for recognition and aspires to be an actress. Had a brief affair with Byron in England earlier in 1816, before he departed for Geneva.

  • A painting of Lord Byron wearing a red jacket, leaning his chin on his hand

    Lord Byron

    6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, a leading poet of the romantic movement. Has fled England for Geneva amid the scandal of leaving his wife, a rumoured affair with his half-sister, and a mounting gambling debt.

  • A painting of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Mary Shelley) wearing a black off the shoulder dress

    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

    Mistress to Shelley and daughter of political philosopher William Godwin, and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Travelling with her and Shelley’s illegitimate child. An avid reader and aspiring author.

  • A painting of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wearing a black coat with a white shirt open at the collar

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    A prominent figure in the romantic poetry movement. Holds radical political and philosophical views, advocating for social reform and a supporter of atheism (was expelled from Oxford for penning ‘The Necessity of Atheism’).

  • painting of John Polidori, a handsome man with a black coat and white cravat

    Dr John Polidori

    Personal physician to Lord Byron for his travels through Europe, having gained a medical degree at the age of just 19. He accepts a fee from a publisher to secretly keep a diary of his time with Byron.

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