Byron's Women

Byron's Women
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 609
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781784082017
ISBN-13 : 1784082015
Rating : 4/5 (015 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Byron's Women by : Alexander Larman

Download or read book Byron's Women written by Alexander Larman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Byron's Women Related Books

Byron's Women
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Alexander Larman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

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 legitimat
A Magical World
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Derek K Wilson
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for
With Words and Knives
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Lynda Payne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-11 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

The practice of medicine in the days before the development of anaesthetics could often be a brutal and painful experience. Many procedures, especially those in
Aphra Behn
Language: en
Pages: 727
Authors: Mary Ann O'Donnell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-02 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of pub
Language: en
Pages: 1626
Authors: Diemut Majer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: JHU Press

GET EBOOK

"Indispensable to any student of the New Order in Europe between 1939 and 1945." -- English Historical Review