The Real Lady ByronIn 1992, the bicentenary of the birth of Annabella Noel Byron, this book makes a sympathetic reassessment of this misunderstood and much-maligned woman, refuting the unfavourable contemporary judgements made about her and revealing instead the many benevolent causes she supported. |
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Page 75
... Hobhouse , the friend with whom he had shared so many adventures at Cambridge and during their travels abroad before he became famous , arrived at Seaham at eight o'clock in the evening of 31 December . They were shown to their rooms ...
... Hobhouse , the friend with whom he had shared so many adventures at Cambridge and during their travels abroad before he became famous , arrived at Seaham at eight o'clock in the evening of 31 December . They were shown to their rooms ...
Page 176
... Hobhouse had the day before the most extraordinary plans , such as locking up the manuscript at his [ Wilmot's ] ... Hobhouse's account of the destruction of the memoirs he says that on the day before they were burned he was told by Murray ...
... Hobhouse had the day before the most extraordinary plans , such as locking up the manuscript at his [ Wilmot's ] ... Hobhouse's account of the destruction of the memoirs he says that on the day before they were burned he was told by Murray ...
Page 246
... Hobhouse was annoyed by the attitude taken at Westminster Abbey . As might be expected from the man who had undervalued Byron's genius when alive , allowed his memoirs to be burned after his death and suppressed Fletcher's disclosure ...
... Hobhouse was annoyed by the attitude taken at Westminster Abbey . As might be expected from the man who had undervalued Byron's genius when alive , allowed his memoirs to be burned after his death and suppressed Fletcher's disclosure ...
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