The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

ISBN-13: 9781473664326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str.

Emily Brand

Opis

A thrilling family story of aristocratic decadence and decline.

Recenzje

Brand has written a delectable biography and, while she never exalts the family, she can't help but be moved by that Byronic lust for life - even when it is thwarted Sunday Times

O autorze

Emily Brand is an author, historian and genealogist specialising in social history and romantic relationships during the long eighteenth century. She has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times and Washington Post, and previously worked as an editor of history and classic literature for the University of Oxford. The Fall of the House of Byron was selected for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times 'Best Summer Reads' 2020, and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize.