When Lord Byron later became famous, Mary regretted this decision, although at the time Byron was only fifteen! ... Lord Byron was 19 years old at that time. ... Byron returned to London on July 14, 1811. ... Here he became friends with the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Shelley's "crew," which included Shelley's wife, Mary, William Godwin, and Godwin's stepdaughter, Claire Clairmont. ... Here Leigh Hunt, a poet who shared Byron's house in Pisa with him, came to join Byron and Shelley in the editing of a new periodical. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The eighteen year old writer sat amazed by the conversations between her friends and the passionate poet she adored, Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the latest scientific experiments upon cadavers and what they might mean philosophically in terms of the limitations of science. Upon the conclusion of this debate, a challenge was issued to each person present to write a ghost story as said by Robert Kiely "It was supposedly begun as part of a literary contest among Shelly, Mary, Byron, and Polydor to write a ghost story in a vein popular in Germany and France". ...

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