Byrons Women

Author: Larman, Alexander

Biography: literary

Published on 6 April 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Head of Zeus) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages, 8pp colour illus
131 x 198 x 27 | 314g

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 Shelleys 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 AND HIS WOMAN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous anti-biography of one of Englands greatest poets, whose life is views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged womans lives.