Source: Oxford Dictionary Richard Westall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commonsīy August of 1812 after a half year long affair, Lord Bryon dropped Lady Caroline for a new paramour who was 14 years his senior, Jane Harley, the Countess of Oxford. “Mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” Lady Lamb. Lady Lamb, who eventually succumbed to his charms and became his lover, described him as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” Upon their first meeting at a ball, Lord Byron was immediately smitten. In 1812, Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of Lord Melbourne who later became the Prime Minister of England, met the dashing and infamous poet Lord Byron. “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.” From Life, Letter and Journals of Lord Byron, ed Thomas Moore (1839).Īutograph of Lord George Gordon Byron Category:autographsCategory:George Gordon Byron Infamous Love Affairs While traveling Byron wrote the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, which were published by John Murray on 10 March 1812 and sold out within three days. Lord Byron returned to England two years later, arriving in Portsmouth on July 14, 1811. Replica by Thomas Phillips, oil on canvas, circa 1835 (1813) “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less but Nature more.” Lord Byron A portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian dress. Upon reaching his majority in 1809, Lord Byron took his seat in the House of Lords and upon completing his education at Cambridge, then embarked on a grand tour. Lord Byron’s two-year journey across Spain, Portugal, Albania, and Greece, led him to Lisbon, Malta, Albania, Greece, Smyrna, Ephesus and Constantinople, where he drew inspiration for Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. In addition to Byron’s strong attachment to young men, his sexual pursuit and seduction of women throughout his life is said to be evidence of a heterosexual lifestyle (Britannica, 2023). While in Cambridge, Byron became obsessed with a young chorister, John Edleston, in what Byron described as “a violent, though pure, love and passion”. Lord Byron attended school in Aberdeen, Dulwich and Harrow, one of England’s most prestigious schools, before attending Trinity College in Cambridge in 1805, where he accumulated debts at an alarming rate and indulged in a hedonistic lifestyle. To gain access to his mother-in-laws fortune, Lord Byron later adopted his mother-in-law’s family name, Noel, in order to inherit half of her estate. Consequently, Byron inherited the family title at age 10 and became heir to his uncle’s estate as well. Raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland, his father abandoned them and left for France, where his father died in 1791. ‘Tis woman’s whole existence.” Don Juan, Author: Lord Byron Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commonsīyron’s most notable works include Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, Hours of Idleness, and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and are compared to other well known writers in the Romantic Period, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley. “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, Devastatingly handsome, he moved easily among the circles of London’s society and earned a reputation as a seducer of several high profile women of the ton. Lord Byron is infamous for his love affairs and inappropriate sexual relationships, debts, and illegitimate children. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), one of the greatest British writers and poets during the Romantic Movement.
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