Byron's Women

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Onewasthemotherwhoborehim;threewerewomenwhoadoredhim;onewasthesisterhesleptwith;onewashisabusedandsodomizedwife;onewashislegitimatedaughter;onewasthefruitofhisincest;anotherwashisfriendShelley'swife,whoavoidedhisbedandinventedsciencefictioninstead.Ninewomen;onepoetnamedGeorgeGordon,LordByron--themostflamboyantoftheRomantics,hewroteliterarybestsellers,heembodiedtheRomanticloveofliberty,hewastheprototypeofthemoderncelebrity--andhetreatedwomenabominably.AlexLarmantellstheirextraordinary,movingandoftenshockingstories.Hecreatesascurrilous"anti-biography"ofoneofEngland'sgreatestpoets,whoselifeisviewed--todeeplyunflatteringeffect--throughtheprismoftheninedamagedwoman'slives.