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Emjy Bookworm
| Sujet: The Fall of the House of Byron d'Emily Brand Mar 5 Mai - 13:14 | |
| Cette biographie consacrée à Lord Byron (et sa famille) est sortie il y a quelques jours en Angleterre. Je l'ai repérée dans la dernière video YouTube de la blogueuse/instagrameuse Miranda Mills. - Citation :
- In the early eighteenth century, Newstead Abbey was among the most admired aristocratic homes in England. It was the abode of William, 4th Baron Byron - a popular amateur composer and artist - and his teenage wife Frances. But by the end of the century, the building had become a crumbling and ill-cared-for ruin. Surrounded by wreckage of his inheritance, the 4th Baron's dissipated son and heir William, 5th Baron Byron - known to history as the 'Wicked Lord' - lay on his deathbed alongside a handful of remaining servants and amidst a thriving population of crickets.
This was the home that a small, pudgy boy of ten from Aberdeen - who the world would later come to know as Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, soldier, and adventurer - would inherit in 1798. His family, he would come to learn, had in recent decades become known for almost unfathomable levels of scandal and impropriety, from elopement, murder, and kidnapping to adultery, coercion, and thrilling near-death experiences at sea. Just as it had shocked the society of Georgian London, the outlandish and scandalous story of the Byrons - and the myths that began to rise around it - would his influence his life and poetry for posterity. The Fall of the House of Byron follows the fates of Lord Byron's ancestors over three generations in a drama that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentlemen's clubs of Georgian London, amid tempests on far-flung seas, and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France. A compelling story of a prominent and controversial characters, it is a sumptuous family portrait and an electrifying work of social history. Chose étonnante : cette biographie ne fait que 368 pages. _________________ |
| | | Shelbylee Bookworm
| Sujet: Re: The Fall of the House of Byron d'Emily Brand Mar 5 Mai - 13:28 | |
| C'est intéressant, je vais jeter un oeil à ça. _________________ |
| | | sandie Bookworm
| Sujet: Re: The Fall of the House of Byron d'Emily Brand Mar 5 Mai - 14:25 | |
| J'ai aussi repéré cette biographie chez Miranda, ça me rend curieuse. Ca semble tellement compliqué de trouver une bonne biographie de Byron. Et la couverture est très belle je trouve. _________________ |
| | | Emjy Bookworm
| Sujet: Re: The Fall of the House of Byron d'Emily Brand Mar 12 Mai - 12:55 | |
| J'espère que Miranda chroniquera ce livre bientôt pour qu'on puisse en savoir plus _________________ |
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