1. Lord Byron
Victor became so engrossed in his work that he even let summer months slip by and did not maintain contact with his family. ... The summer months passed while I was thus engaged" (41). ... Walton says, "These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased the regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life" (Shelley 29). ... Mary's first child was born 2 months premature and died after only a few days of life. ...
