After completing Return to Night (published in 1947), MR
spent six months researching a novel about the life of Byron
. She abandoned the project when she became aware that previously unpublished correspondence between Byron...
Literary responses
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The Conversations established Marguerite Blessington's literary popularity, and has remained the work for which she is remembered. It has been praised by modern writers on Byron, among them Harold Nicolson
, André Maurois
, Iris Origo