Byron and Newstead
Subtitle: the aristocrat and the abbey
By: John Beckett with Sheila Aley.
Contributors: Aley, Sheila.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Nottinghamshire.; Newstead Abbey.; Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- Nottinghamshire -- History -- 19th century.; Country homes -- England -- Nottinghamshire -- History -- 19th century.; Poets, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Nottinghamshire.; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Nottinghamshire (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Nottinghamshire (England) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron, died in 1824, but he is today regarded as the leading English romantic poet, with a reputation which is truly global. Born in 1788, he inherited Newstead Abbey in 1798, a landed estate which had been badly run by his predecessor in title, the fifth Lord Byron.

This book offers a reappraisal of Byron's tenure of landed estates, an entirely new explanation of events surrounding the sale of his ancestral home at Newstead Abbey, and new thoughts on his financial circumstances during his years in Italy and Greece. Byron is examined as a landed aristocrat, and his financial and business affairs are unravelled in this context."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Byrons and Newstead; title: 2. William, Fifth Lord Byron: Landowning; title: Aristocrat, 1743-70; title: 3. William, Fifth Lord Byron: The Man and the Myth,; title: 1770-98; title: 4. The Estate during the Minority, 1798-1809; title: 5. Lord Byron Comes of Age: Funding the Heir,; title: 1803-9; title: 6. Lord Byron as Landlord, 1809-12; title: 7. The Abortive Sale, 1812-14; title: 8. Marriage and Debt, 1814-15; title: 9. The Sale of Newstead; title: 10. An Exiled Aristocrat, 1818-23; title: 11. Greece, Glory, and Financial Security; title: 12. Byron and Newstead: The Myth; title: Appendix: The Byron Family; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.