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Unit 1 · British Literature English · 2020 cycle (Shift 1)

Who wrote 'A Fragment' (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in English?

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Correct answer: B. Lord Byron

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Byron's 'Fragment of a Novel', begun at the Villa Diodati in 1816 and published with Mazeppa. Polidori developed it into The Vampyre (1819).

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