- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- Year: 2017
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781784082048
- Product code: 515565
Byron's Women
New Paperback Illustrated
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Byron’s lover Caroline Lamb described him as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, and she was not the only woman to discover his dark side. This book explores his relationships with women, including his long-suffering mother Catherine and his wife Annabella Milbanke, who endured both his violent abuse and the knowledge of his incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh.
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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 AND HIS WOMAN, 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 is views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives.
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 AND HIS WOMAN, 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 is views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives.
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Byron’s lover Caroline Lamb described him as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, and she was not the only woman to discover his dark side. This book explores his relationships with women, including his long-suffering mother Catherine and his wife Annabella Milbanke, who endured both his violent abuse and the knowledge of his incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh.
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