(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966), p. 194.

19. Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Marchand, Vol, 6, p. 25.

20. Don Juan, ed. T. G. Steffan, E. Steffan and W. W. Pratt, with an introduction by Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning (London: Penguin, 2004), Canto 1, Stanza 37, 7.

21. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 5 (August 1819), p. 514.

22. Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Marchand, Vol. 6, p. 67.

23. Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Marchand, Vol. 12, p. 107.

24. Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1897), Vol. 1, p. 4; Matthew Arnold, ‘Byron’, Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888); (London: Dent, 1964), p. 315.

TABLE OF DATES

 

 

 

1778

Captain John (‘Mad Jack’) Byron elopes with the wealthy Lady Carmarthen and marries her the next year.

1783

Byron’s half-sister, Augusta, born.

1784

Lady Carmarthen Augusta’s mother dies.

1785

Mad Jack marries the wealthy Catherine Gordon, squanders her fortune.

1788

22 January, George Gordon (later Lord Byron) born with a deformed foot.

1789

Byron and his mother move to Aberdeen, Scotland. The storming of the Bastille, 14 July, launches the French Revolution.

1790

Mad Jack leaves for France. Pye becomes poet laureate.

1791

Mad Jack Byron dies in France.

1792

Allies invade France. September Massacres.

1793

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed; Marat murdered; the Terror begins.