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The Byrons and Trevanions
212 pp. With 8 pages of illustrations. "Bryon's extraordinary personality fascinated the world, as much as his poetry, in his own time and ever since. The Byrons and Trevanions developed a fixation on each other from a succession of intermarriages, besides extramarital relationships. In this, the women were mostly Trevanions, their name concealed under that of the Byrons. But they were hardly less important in the family story, and A.L. Rowse brings the two strains together in a vivid re-creation of the past.Medieval life in Northern Midlands and Cornwall, the Civil War across England and the South-West; Elizabeth Trevanion's bringing up of the young Charles I; the 'Wicked Lord' Byron, his brother the Admiral and his adventures in the Pacific; the Admiral's wife, blue-stocking Sophia Trevanion, friend of Dr. Johnson; their grand-children, the poet, his half-sister Augusta, her husband Colonel Leigh; equally beautiful and romantic Newstead Abbey and Caerhays Castle, Sherwood Forest and Cornwall--all combine to make a brilliantly lit portrait, both historical and literary."Keywords: A L AL ROWSE BYRONS TREVANIONS BIOGRAPHY HISTORY LITERARY LITERATURE POETRY
212 pp. With 8 pages of illustrations. "Bryon's extraordinary personality fascinated the world, as much as his poetry, in his own time and ever since. The Byrons and Trevanions developed a fixation on each other from a succession of intermarriages, besides extramarital relationships. In this, the women were mostly Trevanions, their name concealed under that of the Byrons. But they were hardly less important in the family story, and A.L. Rowse brings the two strains together in a vivid re-creation of the past.Medieval life in Northern Midlands and Cornwall, the Civil War across England and the South-West; Elizabeth Trevanion's bringing up of the young Charles I; the 'Wicked Lord' Byron, his brother the Admiral and his adventures in the Pacific; the Admiral's wife, blue-stocking Sophia Trevanion, friend of Dr. Johnson; their grand-children, the poet, his half-sister Augusta, her husband Colonel Leigh; equally beautiful and romantic Newstead Abbey and Caerhays Castle, Sherwood Forest and Cornwall--all combine to make a brilliantly lit portrait, both historical and literary."Keywords: A L AL ROWSE BYRONS TREVANIONS BIOGRAPHY HISTORY LITERARY LITERATURE POETRY
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- PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0297775480
- ISBN 13 9780297775485
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages212
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