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Lori Mahaney's avatar

My favorite MS rumors- 1) she had sex with Percy on her mother’s grave 2) after Percy died, she kept his heart and carried it with her for the rest of her life and after she died it was found in her desk drawer

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Jane Marie's avatar

THE FUCK?

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Lori Mahaney's avatar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8497000/8497549.stm (Also the book Romantic Outlaws, about both Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly is very good)

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Phrynes_Apprentice's avatar

A++. May I recommend the Drunk History UK on this episode, perhaps the best of its genre.

Also the real takeaway from this is def "affair in a tollbooth." That one's going to fester.

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Jane Marie's avatar

Right? What even WAS a tollbooth back then?

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KM's avatar

This was amazing. Please do Rasputin next. He loved alcohol! He loved the ladies! According to my AP European History teacher, he was also poisoned several times, rolled up in a rug, and thrown into a river, where he finally drowned. He was apparently quite hard to kill.

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