Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard -Smith & Haas ($2.50). In the maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against...
BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded...
(2 of 2) thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron...
The root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she...
Byron: The Years of Fame ends with Byron's disgrace and exile, makes the poet seem almost a weary old man by that time. The Romantic Rebels, on the other hand, makes it clear that the experiences of Keats and Shelley were only a little less sensational, that most...