Lord Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

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Source/Further reading:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in-depth: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4279 

Britannica, overview: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lord-Byron-poet 

Biography, overview: https://www.biography.com/writer/lord-byron 

Slate, overview: https://slate.com/culture/2009/07/edna-o-brien-s-byron-in-love-a-short-daring-life.html 

Guardian, Byron’s exile: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/09/classics.poetry 

Guardian, Byron’s sexual escapades: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/may/30/featuresreview.review8?CMP=gu_com 

Guardian, the complexities of Lord Byron: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/06/the-private-life-of-lord-byron-by-antony-peattie-review 

NYTimes, Byron’s sexuality: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/books/i-love-not-woman-the-less-but-man-more.html 

Byron’s eating problems: https://hekint.org/2018/10/05/lord-byron-and-his-strange-relationship-with-food/ 

Byron and Augusta: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/12/biography 

British Library, punishments for homosexuality in Byron’s time: https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/06/remembering-the-vere-street-coterie-a-story-of-gay-community-a-police-raid-and-library-censorship.html 

NYTimes, Byron and Shelley: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/travel/lake-geneva-as-byron-and-shelley-knew-it.html 

Infamous Edinburgh Review of Byron’s first collection: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/2465/Edinburgh%20Review%20-%20Vol%20XI%20-%20Review%20of%20Hours%20of%20Idleness.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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