| Description |
xii, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-405) and index. |
| Contents |
Catherine -- Caroline -- Annabella and Augusta -- Claire and Mary -- Teresa -- Ada and Medora. |
| Summary |
"One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity - and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON'S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Relations with women.
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. (OCoLC)fst00069259
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Relations with women. (OCoLC)fst01354410
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781784082017 |
| ISBN |
9781784082024 (hardback) |
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1784082023 (hardback) |
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9781784082017 (ebook) |
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