“The finest in the world”: the strange tale of Lord Byron’s pet bear
Even as a student at Trinity College in the early 1800s, Lord Byron was determined to bend the rules and decided to buy a pet ...
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The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs
he could stir up Byron’s widow and sister to bring pressure to bear. He wrote to the one and went to sec the other. That sister — or rather, half sister, the Hon. Augusta Leigh — had never ...
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Heroic or insane, debauched or lonely: Lord Byron’s many masks
Lord Byron (1788–1824) is among the UK’s greatest ... Perhaps we judge him for his shocking passions (not least with Augusta, his half-sister, and numerous women and men of the ton, the ...