Author: Peter Gunn
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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My Dearest Augusta. A Biography of the Honourable Augusta Leigh, Lord Byron's Half-sister. [With Plates, Including Portraits, and a Genealogical Table.].
My Dearest Augusta
Author: Peter Gunn
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Augusta Leigh, Byron's Half Sister
Author: Michael Bakewell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780185619754
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Augusta Leigh was the child of one of the most notorious scandals of late 18th-Century England - the elopement of 'Mad Jack' Byron with the beautiful and willful Marchioness of Carmarthen - and scandal would pursue Augusta her whole life. Her marriage to the equerry of the Prince of Wales brought her nothing but poverty and seven children. Her love affair with her half-brother, Lord Byron, was largely responsible for his separation from his wife and his subsequent exile. This is the first biography of her life in thirty years.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780185619754
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Augusta Leigh was the child of one of the most notorious scandals of late 18th-Century England - the elopement of 'Mad Jack' Byron with the beautiful and willful Marchioness of Carmarthen - and scandal would pursue Augusta her whole life. Her marriage to the equerry of the Prince of Wales brought her nothing but poverty and seven children. Her love affair with her half-brother, Lord Byron, was largely responsible for his separation from his wife and his subsequent exile. This is the first biography of her life in thirty years.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Library
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron and Other Correspondents
Author: Augusta Leigh
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages :
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Letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron, John Cam Hobhouse and John Hanson. Includes a copy, undated, of extracts of Byron letters in Augusta Leigh's hand.
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages :
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Letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron, John Cam Hobhouse and John Hanson. Includes a copy, undated, of extracts of Byron letters in Augusta Leigh's hand.
Byron's Daughter
Author: Catherine Turney
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Portrait of the life of the ill-starred Libby, said to have been born of Byron's incestuous affair with his half sister, Augusta.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Portrait of the life of the ill-starred Libby, said to have been born of Byron's incestuous affair with his half sister, Augusta.
The Kindness of Sisters
Author: David Crane
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron,Baroness, 1692-1860
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"An original account, revolutionary in technique, examining the character of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron through the lives and deadly rivalry of the two women he left behind." "The heart of David Crane's account is the lifelong feud between Augusta - Byron's half sister with whom he had a passionate affair - and Annabella, his society wife, both of whom bore him daughters. Crane reimagines the famous meeting between the two women years after Byron's death, a chillingly dramatic scene through which he explores the emotional and sexual truths that lay at the center of these tragic relationships. In the encounter between the two women - one in chronic ill health, the other dying - we have the ultimate display of their mutual obsession with the memory and compulsive influence of Byron that makes their story that of the Romantic Age itself." "It is a story full of dubious motives, especially Annabella's "saving" of Augusta and her child, Medora, and her twisted revenge on them both. And as the curses of incest and abuse play themselves out in the fates of Byron's daughters, we see their lives assuming the shape of Greek tragedy." "In the meeting of the two women and the consequences of their battle, Crane shows us the Romantic Age in its terrible collision with the new world of the Victorians. The Kindness of Sisters establishes Crane as a biographer of formidable gifts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Category : Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron,Baroness, 1692-1860
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"An original account, revolutionary in technique, examining the character of the great Romantic poet Lord Byron through the lives and deadly rivalry of the two women he left behind." "The heart of David Crane's account is the lifelong feud between Augusta - Byron's half sister with whom he had a passionate affair - and Annabella, his society wife, both of whom bore him daughters. Crane reimagines the famous meeting between the two women years after Byron's death, a chillingly dramatic scene through which he explores the emotional and sexual truths that lay at the center of these tragic relationships. In the encounter between the two women - one in chronic ill health, the other dying - we have the ultimate display of their mutual obsession with the memory and compulsive influence of Byron that makes their story that of the Romantic Age itself." "It is a story full of dubious motives, especially Annabella's "saving" of Augusta and her child, Medora, and her twisted revenge on them both. And as the curses of incest and abuse play themselves out in the fates of Byron's daughters, we see their lives assuming the shape of Greek tragedy." "In the meeting of the two women and the consequences of their battle, Crane shows us the Romantic Age in its terrible collision with the new world of the Victorians. The Kindness of Sisters establishes Crane as a biographer of formidable gifts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs
Author: Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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