Encyclopedia Imitating Art

Oct 02, 2011 14:41

"At sixteen, Clairmont was a lively, voluptuous brunette with a good singing voice and a hunger for recognition."

It's always disorienting when Wikipedia entries take on the tone of what they're discussing.

I feel like I've already read the Gothic novel that started with this sentence. Or maybe I'll use it as the first line of a long-off memoir.

(Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's stepsister and Lord Byron's lover, who also wrote some Gothic fiction.)

belfries, lit, gothic

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