Byron's women
By: Alexander Larman
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781784082024
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: English Poets; Biography; Relations with women
Description: "One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity - and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON'S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-405) and index.
Table of contents: title: Catherine; title: Caroline; title: Annabella and Augusta; title: Claire and Mary; title: Teresa; title: Ada and Medora.