Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life
and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She
brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland,
embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed
foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the
Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships
with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies.
While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's
marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the
clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance
to his close male friendships, in particular that with his
publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous
disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry
became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his
own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication
of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented
proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the
age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the
truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious.
Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately
researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
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