Byron: Life and Legend

by	Fiona MacCarthy

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Weight	0.84 kg
Dimensions	5.6 × 15.4 × 23.2 cm
by	Fiona MacCarthy
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	720
Publisher	John Murray Press
Year Published	2014-10-23
Imprint	John Murray
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	144479986X
About The Author	Fiona MacCarthy is one of the best known biographers in Britain, establishing her reputation with her widely acclaimed and controversial life of Eric Gill. Her magisterial biography of William Morris, won the Wolfson History Prize and her life of Edward Burne-Jones won the James Tait Black Biography Prize.Fiona is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Hon. Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 2009 she was appointed OBE for services to literature.
	A magisterial account of Byron's life as a poet, public figure and serial shagger, this 674- page biography is both scholarly and readable . . . MacCarthy also pays due attention to the poetry, and charts his posthumous influence on figures as diverse as Disraeli, Oscar Wilde and W H Auden
Other text	Fiona MacCarthy's definitive biography republished by Byron's own publisher.