The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs
In what some describe as the biggest literary crime in history, after Byron’s death, his friends and his publisher, John Murray, decided that the memoirs they acquired after Byron’s death were so scandalous that they should never reach the eyes of the reading public. And so, they were burned. The episode is reimagined in my story, which like in Emily’s Secret, has a side-by-side tale of Byron’s life and liaison with Caro and other aspects of his life. The result is My Lady Caroline, a ghost story. But I’m getting ahead of myself. When Bonnie and I landed at Gatwick […]
