Straight to the Looney Bin??
Spanish court painter suspected of adultery & illegitimate child with his maid [who is 35 years younger].
More recently, Francisco Goya has retreated into the countryside to live in isolation with his paintings… Clearly bordering insanity his works have become dark and paranoid; covering the walls of his house.
Watch out — this dude is crazy!
It’s obvious that Coleridge can’t quit any time he wants. The depressed opium addict has taken residence with physician James Gillman who will attempt to treat him. Of course, it took a divorce, a falling out with Wordsworth, and a loss of his annuity before he released himself to a doctor’s care.
The Culprit
Suicide, Scandal, and Two-Timing, Oh My
He couldn’t have timed it any better; driving ex-wife Harriet to drowning herself just in time to tie the knot to Mary! is it just us, or does Frankenstein’s monster look eerily similar to a zombie-fide Harriet?
Here’s a link to Harriet’s famous suicide letter! Trust me, you want to read this juicy text ;) http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/harriet-shelleys-suicide-letter
What Sexually Transmitted Disease?
Can it be? Syphillis?! Although Hoffmann has been married to Maria Tekla Michalina Rorer he could have contracted it several different ways:
This is sure a Nutcracker!
An Estranged Daughter??
Who would have thought that William had rather a wild life after college for a few years, spending time in Revolutionary France where he fell in love with a French woman (Annette Vallon). He got her preganant and left her! My goodness! It’s said to be known that the affair was basis of his poem “Vaudracour and Julia”. Wordsworth definitely did his best to hide the affair from posterity…what a smart man he is.
(The only picture we could find of his French mistress).
