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Book review: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and The Curse of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott

By Pam Norfolk The famous meeting of literary minds at the Villa Diodati in the stormy summer of 1816 has…

scratch18th August 2014

Lord Byron Wordsworth and Romanticism

'A Tassel to the Purse of Merit': Byron and literary failure

by Andrew Stott For those who crave celebrity, obscurity is the worst affront – a long stretch in the penal…

scratch26th July 2014

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'What Exile from himself can flee?': Byron and the price of exile

by Andrew McConnell Stott For one who identified so strongly with the bitterness and imagery of exile - of being…

scratch27th March 2014