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*helpless giggling*
I was reading the Wikipedia article on Mary Shelley and ran across the following:
Timeline-wise, this is a couple of years after the weekend retreat in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Highlander fans can probably guess EXACTLY where my mind went, particularly since the identity of the "physician" is not given. And I thought, awwwww! Methos stayed in touch with them!
It really didn't help that later, there was this bit:
OR MAYBE BYRON HIMSELF. (This is some 20 years after his RL death.)
I love how actual history is cooperating so nicely with Highlander pseudo-history here.
~~~
On a completely different note, curse you Facebook reading page for giving me a casting spoiler just now for one of my other shows that I could have gone ALL SUMMER without knowing. *facepalm* And now I'm going to be watching the rest of it knowing THAT and being sad and AAARGH.
I was reading the Wikipedia article on Mary Shelley and ran across the following:
In December 1818, the Shelleys travelled south with Claire Clairmont and their servants to Naples, where they stayed for three months, receiving only one visitor, a physician.
Timeline-wise, this is a couple of years after the weekend retreat in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Highlander fans can probably guess EXACTLY where my mind went, particularly since the identity of the "physician" is not given. And I thought, awwwww! Methos stayed in touch with them!
It really didn't help that later, there was this bit:
In the mid-1840s, Mary Shelley found herself the target of three separate blackmailers. In 1845, an Italian political exile called Gatteschi, whom she had met in Paris, threatened to publish letters she had sent him. A friend of her son's bribed a police chief into seizing Gatteschi's papers, including the letters, which were then destroyed. Shortly afterwards, Mary Shelley bought some letters written by herself and Percy Bysshe Shelley from a man calling himself G. Byron and posing as the illegitimate son of the late Lord Byron.
OR MAYBE BYRON HIMSELF. (This is some 20 years after his RL death.)
I love how actual history is cooperating so nicely with Highlander pseudo-history here.
~~~
On a completely different note, curse you Facebook reading page for giving me a casting spoiler just now for one of my other shows that I could have gone ALL SUMMER without knowing. *facepalm* And now I'm going to be watching the rest of it knowing THAT and being sad and AAARGH.
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I love it when that happens! Both of those anecdotes sound like great fic prompts, don't they? (In the second instance, I'm imagining that Mary had become a Watcher and was attempting to cover up any evidence that Byron might still be alive.)
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