A number of HEW
's epigraphs to chapters remain untraced, and some may be her own work. Those identified bear witness to considerable reading: among English writers she quotes Shelley
, Byron
, Eliza Cook
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
HW
propositioned Byron
by letter (have you any objection to introduce yourself to a very impertinent young woman . . . ?) but he turned her offer down.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
127
Education
Harriette Wilson
While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil
Friends, Associates
Harriette Wilson
She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham
and with Byron
. Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro-Queen-Caroline...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Harriette Wilson
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...
Textual Production
Harriette Wilson
HW
had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron
, for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
HW
's actual surviving letters to Byron
were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935.
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton.
203
Those to Brougham
(written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...
Publishing
Harriette Wilson
HW
talked of translating Byron
's Don Juan into a new stile of French blank versification,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
167
and sent him a stanza of it in French as a sample. She sent poems of hers to Brougham.
Wilson, Harriette. “Editorial Materials”. The Blackmailing of the Chancellor, edited by Kenneth Bourne, Lemon Tree Press, p. Various pages.
The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf
, who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend...
Textual Production
Dorothy Whipple
The country house which is the centre and almost the leading character of this novel was called in DW
's earliest working drafts The Manor and later Saunby (still used in the novel as published)...
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 333
H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron
and Wordsworth
, but allowed that there were some verses which...
Textual Features
Augusta Webster
Shorter pieces include The River, Two Maidens, and The Hidden Wound. Lota, the last and longest in the collection, is a narrative poem in blank verse. It is most heavily indebted...
Timeline
1806: The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues...
National or international item
1806
The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin
, were exhibited for the first time in England.
1806: The young Lord Byron privately printed his...
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1806
The young Lord Byron
privately printed his first book, Fugitive Pieces, which was immediately suppressed.
By September 1807: Byron published his second verse collection,...
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By September 1807
Byron
published his second verse collection, Hours of Idleness, a year after the first was suppressed.
March 1809: Byron published an anonymous satirical attack...
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March 1809
Byron
published an anonymous satirical attack on the magazine reviewers: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
10 March 1812 to September 1818: Byron published the first two cantos of his...
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10 March 1812 to September 1818
Byron
published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poemChilde Harold's Pilgrimage.
10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...
By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...
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By July 1813
Byron
published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
29 November 1813: Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the...
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29 November 1813
Byron
published The Bride of Abydos; the Critical Review printed its notice the following month.
1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...
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1 February 1814
Byron
published his orientalnarrative poemThe Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
6 August 1814: Byron published Lara, the third of three...
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6 August 1814
Byron
published Lara, the third of three narrative poems in little more than a year which served to establish the image of the Byronic hero.
10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...
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10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
By July 1815: Byron published Hebrew Melodies....
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By July 1815
Byron
published Hebrew Melodies.
1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...
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1816
Leigh Hunt
published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.
June 1817: Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem,...
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June 1817
Byron
published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, written between summer 1816 and April 1817: his first attempt at dramatic form, and last incarnation of the Byronic hero.
By February 1818: Byron published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative...
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By February 1818
Byron
published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative poem in stanzas.
Texts
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. John Murray; William Blackwood; John Cumming.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, http://UofARutherford.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Peter Cochran’s Website”. Byron’s early poems of Nottinghamshire and London, edited by Peter Cochran and Peter Cochran.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, W. Scott, 1886, http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, Walter Scott, 1886.
Fanshawe, Catherine, and George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron. “The Ænigma”. Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron, Effingham Wilson, 1818.