SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY Byron attended a party at Lady Sitwell’s house in June 1814. Among the guests was Anne Beatrix Wilmot, the wife of Byron’s first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot. Recently widowed…
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Family & Literary Heritage I must thank my father and his family for my genetic literary genes. Dad was a sergeant in the Glider Pilot Regiment and fought at the Battle of Arnhem in 19…
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Personal spectres were a central theme and driving force behind the iconic ‘Byronic Hero’. The brooding, melancholic, and deeply romantic persona resonated with themes of angst, alienation and r…
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I have focused on the eye-witness accounts by William Parry and Count Pietro Gamba. Although they agreed on the overall course of events, they did not always agree on the precise day when signif…
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The Byronic Hero is a variant of the Romantic Hero and wrestles with the deeply flawed, gothic anti-hero – the ‘hero-villain’. Each dramatis personae has a strong, redeeming characterization - a…
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