INDEX
Albrizzi, Countess, [300], [302]
Allegra, Byron’s natural daughter, [272], [345-346]
Bankes, William, [150]
Becher, Rev. John, [44], [50]
Benzoni, Countess, [300], [302-303]
Bessborough, Lady, [148]
Blessington, Lady, [336-337], [342], [352-353]
“Bride of Abydos, The,” [170]
Broglie, Duc de, [265]
Byron, Admiral Lord, [6]
Byron, Augusta. See [Leigh, Augusta]
Byron, Captain George, the poet’s cousin, [209], [226]
Byron, Captain, “Mad Jack,” the poet’s father, [6-7], [10-11]
Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord, ancestors, parents, and hereditary influences, [1-9];
childhood and schooldays, [10-22];
schoolboy love affairs, [23-34];
life at Cambridge, and flirtations at Southwell, [35-49];
revelry at Newstead, [50-62];
the “grand tour,” [63-74];
flirtations in Spain, [70-74];
meeting with Mrs. Spencer Smith, [74-86];
at Athens, [87];
swims the Hellespont, [94];
return to England, [101];
death of his mother, [101];
publishes “Childe Harold,” [103-111];
recollections of Mary Chaworth, [114-126];
infatuation of Lady Caroline Lamb, [128-145];
acquaintance with Lady Oxford, [148-155];
renewed relations with Mary Chaworth, [164-181];
Marriage with Miss Milbanke, [182-193];
disagreements, [194-207];
Lady Byron demands separation, [208-226];
scandalous accusations against him, [226-252];
departure for the Continent, [253];
acquaintance with Miss Clairmont, [256-263], [271-273];
at Geneva, [264-276];
in Italy, [277] et seq.;
moral decline, [280-298];
in the Venetian salons, [300];
attachment to Countess Guiccioli, [302-328];
revolutionary activities, [324-335];
life at Pisa and Genoa, [336-355];
enlists in the Greek cause, [356-373];
illness and death, [369-373]
Byron, John, Lord, [2]
Byron, Lady, wife of the poet, marriage, [192];
disagreements, [194-207];
demands separation, [208-226];
scandalous admissions, [226-252];
mentioned, [339-341], [373]. See also [Milbanke, Anna Isabella]
Byron, Mrs., the poet’s mother, [10-17], [28], [31], [37-38], [42], [51], [101]
Byron, Richard, Lord, [2]
Byron, Sir John, of Claydon, [1]
Byron, “the wicked Lord,” [4-6], [12], [15]
Byron, William, Lord, [3]
Canning, Sir Stratford, [96-98]
Carlisle, Lord, [15-17], [58], [60-61]
Carmarthen, Marchioness of, [6]
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, [64-66]
Chaworth, Mary, [25], [27-34], [114-126], [156-157], [159-160], [164-181], [248-250], [310-311], [366-368], [375-376]
Chaworth, William, [4]
“Childe Harold,” [65-66], [102-111], [120]
Clairmont, Jane, [256-263], [269-273], [284], [334], [346]
Clermont, Mrs., [209], [219]
Cogni, Margarita, [289-291]
Cordova, Admiral, [69]
Dallas, [103-105], [110]
Davies, Scrope, [39], [118], [228], [255]
“Don Juan,” [297], [342]
Duff, Mary, [23]
“English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” [59-62]
Forbes, Lady Adelaide, [166], [184]
Galt, John, [71-74], [83], [98], [105-106]
Gamba, Pietro, [362]
Gifford, William, [152]
Godwin, Mary, [257], [260], [263], [269-271], [273]
Guiccioli, Count, [302], [306], [313-321]
Guiccioli, Countess, [233], [302-323], [330-332], [336-337], [341-343], [350-355]
Hanson, Charles, [150-152], [216], [219]
Harness, Rev. William, [119], [127], [135]
Hervey, Mrs., [265]
Hobhouse, John Cam, [66], [68], [72], [87], [99], [153], [189-190], [208-209], [213], [218], [219], [221], [228], [255], [274], [277-278]
Hodgson, [118-119], [123-124], [127], [144], [152], [216], [218], [228], [246]
Holland, Lady, [132]
Holland, Lord, [221]
Hoppner, Consul-General at Venice, [288], [304], [307], [316-317]
Horton, Wilmot, [224]
“Hours of Idleness,” [21]
Houson, Anne, [45]
Hunt, Leigh, [228], [336-337], [349-352]
Hutchinson, Colonel, [3]
Jersey, Lady, [227-228]
Kemble, Fanny, [141]
Lamb, Lady Caroline, [106-107], [128-145], [146-147], [245]
Lamb, William, afterwards Lord Melbourne, [128-131], [133-135], [142-143], [145-147]
Lauriston, General, [76]
Leigh, Medora, [177]
Leigh, Augusta, [7], [37], [151-152], [155], [174-175], [197-199], [209], [212-213], [216], [219], [222-223], [234-252], [274], [291], [373]
Lovelace, Lord, [206], [218], [235-240], [249-252]
Lushington, Dr., [214], [217], [245-246]
Macri, Theresa, [88-91]
“Manfred,” [297]
Mardyn, Mrs., [256]
Mavrocordatos, [359], [361], [363]
Medwin, [96], [138], [140-141], [144], [160-161], [195], [336]
Melbourne, Lady, [128], [185-186], [221]
Melbourne, Lord. See [Lamb, William]
Milbanke, Anna Isabella, afterwards Lady Byron, [128], [155], [182-192]
Milbanke, Sir Ralph, afterwards Noel, [191]
Moore, Thomas, [123-124], [127], [131-132], [152], [154-155], [168], [184], [228], [315], [334]
Morgan, Lady, [132]
Murray, John, [151-152], [319], [346]
Napoleon I., [75-77]
Noel, Sir Ralph, [211], [214-216], [219]. See also [Milbanke, Sir Ralph]
Oxford, Lady, [148-157]
Parker, Margaret, [25-26]
Pedley, Mrs., [93-94]
Robertson, Rev. F. W., [237], [251]
Rogers, Samuel, [127], [131-132], [135-136], [228], [254]
Salvo, Marquis de, [76-82]
Segati, Marianna, [280-284], [287], [288-290]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [257], [260-261], [263-264], [269-271], [273], [293], [331-332], [336-337], [339], [348-349]
Shipman, Thomas, [3]
Sligo, Lord, [99]
Smith, Florence Spencer, [74-86]
Staël, Madame de, [162], [166], [264-265]
Stanhope, Lady Hester, [95-96]
Stendhal, [277-278]
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, [233-239], [246]
“Thyrza,” [121]
Trelawny, [336-338], [359]
Webster, James Wedderburn, [289], [293]
Webster, Lady Frances, [158]
Werry, Mrs., [91]
Westmorland, Lady, [265]
Williams, Captain, [348]
Williams, Hugh W., [88-89]
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Footnotes:
[1] One of the heads of the family was born before his father’s marriage, but he was subsequently given a title on his own merits.
[2] In Mr. Murray’s latest edition of “The Letters and Journals.”
[3] He would have preferred Oxford, but there was no set of rooms vacant at Christ Church.
[4] They intoned underneath his windows the supplication: Good Lort, deliver us!
[5] Musters took his wife’s name when he married her, though he afterwards resumed his own.
[6] In “Byron: the Last Phase.”
[7] Afterwards the Rev. William Harness, and a popular preacher.
[8] Sir Ralph Milbanke had taken the name of Noel on succeeding to some property.
[9] For the full text of the letter see [Appendix].
[10] It is doubtful whether Shelley was at Marlow at this date, so that Miss Clairmont’s memory of the place of meeting was probably at fault.
[11] Southey, among others, circulated the scandal.
[12] Odysseus, who was in Attica.