George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

When Lady Gertrude leaves for the London season, Fanny's parents note a change in their daughter. Dame Fairfield complains that Fanny goes moping and peaking about, and don't set to nothin' with a good heart...

The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...

The poem represented the dead monarch as vindicated by the divine power after his death. It referred to Byron , without naming him, as the leader of those devilish, subversive writers whose works breathe the...

Lady Caroline's (here Kitty Ashe's) obsession, Byron , is thinly disguised as the poet Geoffrey Cliffe. Despite it inspiration in this nearly one-hundred-old relationship, the novel's setting is contemporary and Kitty is a fast cigarette-smoking...

Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...