Word: missolonghi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...
Noel Lord Byron laid down his pen and his life of a Greek fever in the embattled swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current...
Tourists in Athens have found the memory of Lord Byron celebrated nightly in "The Byron Bar," just a block from the Great Britain Hotel. On April 19, 1924, centenary of the death at Missolonghi*of Byron, most famous of the champions of the cause of Greek freedom during their eight years' revolution against the Turks, will be more decorously celebrated throughout Greece...
...Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe...