Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron

by Ashley Hay

Book Overview

A compelling addition to the hugely popular subject of Lord Byron A new young historical writer to set alongside Amanda Foreman and Bella Bathurst The extravagant and improbable life of Lord Byron -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854107836
• ISBN13: 9781854107831
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Original mix of scholarship and novelistic interpretation

This book is extremely original in its written style. It is extremely readable. The scholarly thinking behind it is crystal clear, the research painstaking and thorough, the interpretation fair and lucid. This is a one of a kind Byron book, a true gem.Its only failing is that it calls Anabella a Christian lady, when Lord Byron reveals her as a person of high standing among the Socinians, a sect disavowing the deity of Jesus (Kennedy's conversations and Dorris Langley Moore's The Late Lord Byron). That would make Lady Byron as Christian as the Jesus seminar. Lord Lovelace, Lord and Lady Byron's grandson called her a Unitarian saint, but even of her own unique strain of Unitarianism (in Astarte; at such a comment Lord Byron would have grinned that a priest, a lady and her cat could make up a sect at his day and age).If there was a Christian involved in this story at the time that would be Augusta Leigh.

Original mix of scholarship and novelistic interpretation

This book is extremely original in its written style. It is extremely readable. The scholarly thinking behind it is crystal clear, the research painstaking and thorough, the interpretation fair and lucid. This is a one of a kind Byron book, a true gem.Its only failing is that it calls Anabella a Christian lady, when Lord Byron reveals her as a person of high standing among the Socinians, a sect disavowing the deity of Jesus (Kennedy's conversations and Dorris Langley Moore's The Late Lord Byron). That would make Lady Byron as Christian as the Jesus seminar. Lord Lovelace, Lord and Lady Byron's grandson called her a Unitarian saint, but even of her own unique strain of Unitarianism (in Astarte; at such a comment Lord Byron would have grinned that a priest, a lady and her cat could make up a sect at his day and age).If there was a Christian involved in this story at the time that would be Augusta Leigh.