Byron's women / Alexander Larman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larman, Alexander, 1981- author.

Contributor:

John Louis Haney Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Relations with women.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Relations with women.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Head of Zeus, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Catherine

Caroline

Annabella and Augusta

Claire and Mary

Teresa

Ada and Medora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-405) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781784082024

1784082023

OCLC:

942709901

Publisher Number:

99976887394