William Beckford

CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...

She was an ornament of high society and sought out literary friends. She was, for instance, a long-term friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole , who published her writings on his private press at Strawberry Hill

EH 's half-brother, the brilliant but unstable writer and gothicist William Beckford the younger, was about twelve years her junior. In his teens in Switzerland (whose wild mountain landscapes made a deep impression on him)...

By autumn 1789 (only a couple of years after he had entertained her at his beloved, self-designed home) EH 's half-brother, William Beckford , developed suspicions about her loyalty to him. By the following year...

Shortly after this caper, she entered Byron's rooms, from which he was absent, and wrote in his copy of William Beckford 's Vathek, Remember me! This message quickly became the title of a...