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Full Description
This two-volume work was originally published in French, and anonymously, in 1868. In 1869, Richard Bentley published an English translation by Hubert E. H. Jerningham, in which he stated that the work 'is the production of the celebrated Countess Guiccioli'. Teresa Guiccioli (1800-73) was nineteen, and married to a much older man, when she first met Byron in Venice. Their subsequent love affair lasted until Byron left for Greece, together with her brother Pietro Gamba, whose account of Byron's last days is also reissued in this series. Anxious to restore Byron's reputation, which she believed to be tainted by a conflation in the public mind between the poet and his more notorious characters, she attempts to refute some of the more scandalous assertions about his life. Volume 1 covers such topics as Byron's childhood, his 'benevolence and kindness', and the 'qualities of his heart and soul'.
Contents
Introductory sketch of Lord Byron; 1. Lord Byron and M. de Lamartine; 2. Portrait of Lord Byron; 3. French portrait of Lord Byron; 4. His religious opinions; 5. His childhood and his youth; 6. His friendships; 7. Lord Byron considered as a father, as a brother, and as a son; 8. Qualities of Lord Byron's heart; 9. His benevolence and kindness; 10. Lord Byron's qualities and virtues of soul.
