His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style.
Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life.
22 Alexander Scott MS . ... 27 John Murray Text : LJ , IV , 354 224 Oct. 2 Alexander Scott MS . Pierpont Morgan Library 224 Oct. 3 John Cam Hobhouse MS . Murray 225 Oct. 3 John Murray Text : Hobhouse Proof 227 Oct. 5 J. Wedderburn MS .
"His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. ..."Front jacket flap.
This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness...
The text gathered here shows Reich's steadfast determination to protect his work. "Where's the truth?" he asked a lawyer, and that question animates this volume and rounds out our understanding of a unique, irrepressible modern figure.
Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821.
Moore and Dr. Taylor , who will proceed to Benares to look for a proper spot on which to settle a mission there . Dr. Taylor intended to have gone overland to Surat , and had provided boats & ct . for the journey , but the danger of the ...
This revealing selection from the Queen's papers provides essential clues to her character, tracing her development from shy princess to the formidable and uncompromising grande dame of Europe. How did...