Lucy Hugheshallett

How the Romantics ruined lives

The groupies who lived with Byron and the Shelleys paid a high price, shows Andrew McConnell Stott in The Vampyre Family

The cover of a popular late-19th-century edition of Mary Shelley’s novel. Frankenstein confronts the monster he has created. Credit: Getty Images

  • The Vampyre Family: A Tale of Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron

    Andrew McConnell Stott

    Canongate, pp. 434

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