Byron's lover takes revenge from the grave
A newly discovered memoir from a woman close to Byron and Shelley brands them as worshippers of free love and 'monsters'
A Cambridge graduate has stumbled across an unpublished 19th-century memoir that burns with resentment at Byron and Shelley as "monsters of lying, meanness, cruelty and treachery".
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 28 March, 2010
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