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PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780571179978

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 688

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 6, 2003

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Byron: Life and Legend

Fiona MacCarthy

This biography reinterprets the great man’s life and poetry. MacCarthy casts a fresh eye on Byron’s childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother and his series of relationships with adolescent boys.

Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy was the Royal Society of Arts Bicentenary Medallist for 1986. She is an honorary fellow both of the Royal College of Art and of the Nineteenth Century Studies Centre at the University of Sheffield. Her controversial life of Eric Gill, published in 1989, established her immediately as an authoritative, serious yet eminently readable biographer, and her William Morris won the Wolfson History Prize and the Writers’ Guild Non-fiction Award for 1995.

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