George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

LCL published another satire on Byron 's writing: Gordon, A Tale, A Poetical Review of Don Juan, in two cantos.

With The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harolde in Prose, Elizabeth Thomas entered the controversy swirling around Byron , again calling herself Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle and mentioning a long list of previous works.

The manuscript of this play subsequently went missing. There were stories that Byron had plagiarised his highly successful Kruitzner adaptation, Werner, from it.

Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre , later wrote that she owned a copy of the Riddle on the Letter H in Fanshawe's handwriting dating from around 1806, before anyone had heard of Byron . The...

The title-page bears a couplet from Byron 's Don Juan: 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print, / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .

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)...

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...

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...

Critic Kathleen McCormack suggests that CC 's poems were often influenced by her early years of hardship. For example, she argues that Spring is Coming aptly points out how winter exacerbates hunger and other suffering...

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville

After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...

The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the...

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...

This book describes the emotions and the atmosphere of Italy, rather than the practical details of travel. Memoirs of Byron play an important part, without repeating material used in Conversations of Lord Byron with...