My Recollections of Lord Byron
And Those of Eye-Witnesses of his Life

In this two-volume work of 1869, Teresa Guiccioli attempts to restore the reputation of her lover, the poet Lord Byron.

Teresa Guiccioli (Author), Hubert E. H. Jerningham (Translated by)

9781108076067, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 August 2014

466 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg

This two-volume work was originally published in French, and anonymously, in 1868. In 1869, Richard Bentley published an English translation by Hubert E. H. Jerningham, in which he stated that the work 'is the production of the celebrated Countess Guiccioli'. Teresa Guiccioli (1800–73) was nineteen, and married to a much older man, when she first met Byron in Venice. Their subsequent love affair lasted until Byron left for Greece, together with her brother Pietro Gamba, whose account of Byron's last days is also reissued in this series. Anxious to restore Byron's reputation, which she believed to be tainted by a conflation in the public mind between the poet and his more notorious characters, she attempts to refute some of the more scandalous assertions about his life. Volume 2 continues to describe Byron's qualities: his generosity, courage and modesty, but also his faults, including vanity and misanthropy.

1. Lord Byron's constancy
2. His courage and fortitude
3. His modesty
4. Virtues of his soul
5. His generosity elevated into heroism
6. His faults
7. His irritability
8. His mobility
9. His misanthropy and sociability
10. His pride
11. His vanity
12. Lord Byron's marriage and its consequences
13. His gaiety and melancholy
14. His melancholy
15. Conscience the chief quality of his soul
Semi-biography of Byron in Mr Disraeli's Venetia.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]