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020			_a9781444799866
082			_a821.7 _bMAC
100			_aMacCarthy, Fiona
245			_aByron : life and legend
260			_bJohn Murray, _c2002 _aLondon :
300			_axiv, 674 p.; _bill. _c24 cm
365			_b19.99 _cGBP _d104.40
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six.
650			_a1800-1899
650			_aBiography
650			_aBritish Europe History 19th century
650			_aEurope
650			_acollective biographies
650			_aPoets
650			_a Athens
650			_aCephatnia
650			_aClairmont,Claire
650			_a Don Juan
650			_a Gamba family
650			_aGreece
650			_a Hobhouse diaries
650			_a Missolonghi
650			_aNewstead
650			_a Ravenna
650			_aThomas Moore
650			_aSix-mile bottom
650			_aVenice
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