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'A Fragment', from Mazeppa by Lord George Byron
Book‘Mazeppa’ is a poem by Lord Byron based on a Ukrainian story about a young man who is punished for an illicit relationsh...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
BookLord Byron wrote his third canto of Childe Harold as he travelled through Belgium and up the Rhine to Switzerland, havin...
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Don Juan, cantos 1-2
BookWho published Don Juan? Lord Byron, who had been living abroad since 1816, was not fully aware of the political situati...
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Don Juan, cantos 1-5
Book, Illustration, ImageThe publication of the first cantos of Lord Byron's Don Juan coincided with the politically charged atmosphere of the se...
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Extract from The Corsair by Byron
Book‘If I have deviated into the gloomy vanity of “drawing from self,”’ Lord George Byron wrote in the dedication to The Cor...
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Illustrated edition of The Vampyre
Book, Illustration, ImageJohn Polidori’s tale of the vampire, which developed from the ‘ghost-story challenge’ of June 1816, was credited to Lord...
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Illustrations to Byron's works
Book, Print, ImageEngravings illustrating the poetry and life of Lord Byron were highly popular during the early-mid 19th century. This 18...
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Letter from Lord Byron about his memoirs, 29 Octob...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 29 October 1819This letter was written by Lord Byron to his publisher, John Murray, in October 1819. In the letter Byron recognises tha...
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Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird about o...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 20 January 1817 -
Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 November...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 4 November 1820In this letter to John Murray Lord Byron aims some very dismissive criticism at John Keats. He rather deliberately mista...
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about incide...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 15 May 1819This letter shows Lord Byron’s concern about the reception of his work, and also tells us about his relationship with ot...
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about other...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 25 March 1817Lord Byron starts this letter by outlining his opinion of Venice which, he states, has the benefit of a limited English ...
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about the de...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 26 April 1821This letter was written by Lord Byron from the Italian city of Ravenna to his publisher John Murray in London. In the l...
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Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray giving an ac...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 25 February 1825In 1825 Lord Byron’s relationship with his former publisher, John Murray, had not completely broken down, as is shown by...
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Letter of complaint from Lord Byron to John Murray...
Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 21 December 1822At the time this letter was written Lord Byron’s relationship with his long-term publisher, John Murray, was almost at a...
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