Byron's Women Hardback
by Alexander Larman
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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.
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- Pages:416 pages, 8pp illus
- Publisher:Head of Zeus
- Publication Date:08/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781784082024
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:416 pages, 8pp illus
- Publisher:Head of Zeus
- Publication Date:08/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781784082024