Barrie John (Medium)

Multi Award Winning TV Psychic Medium/Paranormal Expert - Historical Tour Guide at Newstead Abbey and Welbeck Abbey

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

"I think of our excursions on the lake. How we saw him when he came down to us, or welcomed our arrival, with a good-humoured smile. How vividly does each verse of his poem recall some scene of this kind to my memory."

Mary Shelley on reading Byron's Childe Harold III, 1817

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

I saw thee smile upon another;
If not a lover or a brother –
Or both (thus to unite in both
A Lover’s best and worst in guiltiest growth) –
He had no business there to be –
Thy smiles to him were snakes to me!

(Teresa's note to B - "Come, I'll wait for you – you promised me")

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@DOPreston Cute 🥰

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

Byron to Mother, 1810: I write at anchor off the Troad - all the remains of Troy are the tombs of her destroyers, amongst which I see that of Antilochus from my cabin window. These are huge mounds of earth like the barrows of the Danes in your Island.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1814 Shelley abandons his wife Harriet to elope with the teenage Mary Godwin, taking with them her even younger stepsister Claire Clairmont

Illustration by Divya Srinivasan

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

Byron to Augusta, from Ravenna, 1819: I have my saddle-horses here – I am very fond of riding and always was out of England – but I hate your Hyde Park and your turnpike roads – & must have forests – downs – or deserts to expatiate in – I detest knowing the road one is to go.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

#OTD 1822 Shelley is drowned in a storm. It will be 10 days before his body is found

https://t.co/Mthi3dakRt

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@PamAyres Lovely 😊

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

Byron to Moore, 1814: Newstead is to be mine again. Claughton forfeits twenty-five thousand pounds; but that don’t prevent me from being very prettily ruined. I mean to bury myself there—and let my beard grow—and hate you all.

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

The 'Florida', carrying Byron's remains, arrives in the Downs this day in 1824. Col. Leicester Stanhope writes to Hobhouse and Kinnaird regarding Byron's funeral arrangements.

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@DOPreston ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

Today's picture: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein notebook

https://t.co/7PM3kIrCjh

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

Byron to Murray, 1820: Pray send me no more poetry but what is rare and decidedly good - there is such a trash of Keats' and the like upon my tables that I am ashamed to look at them.

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@EJBrand Oh yes! We’ve an ivory chair at Newstead Abbey which once belonged to her 👍

[Jed Pumblechook @JedPumblechook]

"June 1.— Breakfasted with Shelley; entered a caleche; took Necker’s house for 100 louis for 8 or 365 days. Saw several houses for Shelley; one good. Dined; went in the boat; all tea’d together."

Polidori's diary, 1816

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@DOPreston Agreed 👍

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@chrismaheras_ Keep going!

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@sacha_coward 👍👍👍👍

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@HerveyBrookes Yeah! Absolutely 💯🥰

[Barrie John (Medium) @BarrieJohn1973]

@DOPreston Ditto! I’ve had 2 days off and I’m sooooo tired mate