his failure is absolute. But the mere adoption of such a method, though it should be infinitely better carried out, is sufficient to annihilate such a case. Only documents—and irrefutable ones-will satisfy the student of these matters; and those Lord Lovelace did produce. Here are some specimens of Mr. Edgcumbe's dealing with the Astarte documents. ... " "Augusta Leigh . . . assisted her brother to place the pack on a false scent". "Augusta avenged herself upon Lady Byron by heightening her jealousy". Byron's letter of May 1819 was, according to Mr. Edgcumbe's theory, in reality written to Mary Chaworth, but sent through Augusta, and by Augusta sent to Lady Byron for the purpose of "heightening her jealousy". Augusta wished Lady Byron to believe that her brother was still making love to her". Mrs. Leigh seems to have enjoyed the wrigglings of her victim on the hook. . . .". Yet this part of Mr. Edgcumbe's book is written in avowed championship of the woman-" the selfless martyr "— who could "enjoy" herself by means of such ugly malice! To take another point. Compare the degrees of "social ruin" in the two cases. Mary Chaworth was a married woman already at odds with a flagrantly unfaithful husband; and the morals of the age regarded adultery as the normal occupation of all men and most women. Augusta Leigh was Byron's half-sister; and Lady Melbourne, who was very far from prudish, had told Byron in 1813 that incest was "a crime for which there was no salvation in this world, whatever there might be in the next ". Yet Augusta Leigh takes upon herself this crime, as well as that of adultery, to save the reputation of a woman who, if discovered, would have suffered merely the degree of ostracism which the world then assigned to adultery alone! I cannot but think that Mr. Edgcumbe's theory is so manifestly feeble that unless he could produce documents (and these, in 1924, he has not yet produced) it would have been wiser to keep it to himself. Even if we could hold Astarte to be unproved, there would still remain the impossibility of believing this solution of the Byron Separation Mystery. " Ali Pasha, the Mahometan Buonaparte, Allegra, 309-13, 323, 332-4, 337, 344, Angeli, Mrs. Rossetti, 358 n., 363 and Annesley, Lady Catherine, 204 Lady Frances Wedderburn Antwerp, 266–7 n. Arethusa, Fountain of, 419 Astarte, 2 n., 48, 63 n., 93-4 n., 172 n., 450 n.-2, 457-8 Atala, 253 n. Athenæum, 42, 46, 225; article, Byronian Ramble," in, 38 n. Auld Robin Gray, 211 n. BAGNA CAVALLO, 360, 364-5, 368, 375 Bancroft, George, 400 Bankes, William, 66, 74 and note, 174, 190 Barnard, Lady Anne, 210-11; and Bathe, Captain de, 455-7 Venetia Beauharnais, Eugène, 75 n. see also Becher, Rev. John, 49 m., 51, 55, 72–3, 79, 86 Beckford, 75 m., 281 and note Benbow, "Byron's Head," 85 n., 377 Benzoni, Countess Marina, 297-8, 315, 322, 335 Beppo, 191, 195, 300, 305, 307-8, 317, Berryer, M., French advocate, 455-6 mother), 146–7, 157-8, 161, 252 Black, Mr., husband of Teresa Macri, Blackwood's, 228, 235, 242 n.-3 n., Boissy, Marquis Hilaire de, 431 n. Borgia, Lucrezia, 291 Bowring, John, 413, 437 Bride of Abydos, The, 183-5 n., 246, 253 n.-4; dedicated to Lord Hol- British Bards, see English Bards and Brocket Hall, 148, 150, 154, 163, 167, Brougham, Henry, Lord 80, 144, Broughton, Lord; see Hobhouse, John Brown, Rawden, 294 n. Browne, Hamilton, 415, 418, 420-1 Bruce, Michael, 118 n.-19 Bruges, 266 Brummell, 149 Bruno, Dr., 414 and note, 418–20, 427– 8, 434-5, 440 Brussels, 266-8 Burdett, Sir F., 369 n., 449 Burgage Manor, Southwell, 48-59 Burges, Sir James Bland, 210 n.-11 n. Burney, Fanny, 146 Burning of Byron's first book, 73 Butler, Rev. George, Headmaster of Byron, Ada; see Lovelace, Ada, Byron, Admiral John (grandfather of Byron, George Gordon, Lord (cont.)— takes M.A. degree at Cambridge, 67 names tributes to Shelley, 389 twisted foot controversy, 6, 439 will proved, 441 Byron, John (Captain), Byron's father, I-3, 7, 49 n., 244, 401 85, 163-4, 172, 189 n., 201-27, Byron, Major George Gordon (reputed Gight), mother of Byron, 3-9, 12, 16-19, 20-1, 23-4, 31-2, 37, 39, 43, Byron: The Last Journey, Harold Byron: The Last Phase, Richard Edg- "Byronian Ramble, A" (Athenæum Byron Separation Mystery, 228, 458 " note Carmarthen, Marchioness of, 2, 48 n., Cartwright, Major, 143 n. Castinelli, Maria (Byron's last recorded Castlereagh, Lord, 341 Cavendish, Lady Harriet, 147, 150, 155, Cawthorne, James, publisher, 82, 84, Cenci, The, Shelley's, 364 Cephalonia, 17, 412-13, 415-17, 421-2, Chambruland, M. de, miniature of Charles I, 14 n., 28 n., 48 Charles, Byron's groom, 54 Charm against love, incident of, 58 Châteaubriand et son Temps, De Mar- Chaworth Duel, 12-13, 309; note on, Cheltenham, 40, 50, 173, 175-6 Chiarini, Italian writer on Byron, 329 Childe Burun; see Childe Harold 98 n.-9 n., 100, 102-5, 106 n.-7, 296-7 n., 300-2, 307-8, 317 n., Childhood of Byron, 1 et seq. 75 Chillon, prison of, visited by Byron and Christabel, Coleridge's, 216 m., 262, 277, Churchill, Charles, 258 Clarke, Hewson, libels Byron and Mrs. Claughton, Mr., 174, 185, 207 n. Shelley: the Man and the Poet Cockburn, Robert, marries Mary Duff, ΙΟ Cogni, Margarita (La Fornarina), 294, 298, 311, 318, 323, 326, 329, 353 n. Colburn, the publisher, 79 n. 71 n., 83, 105-6 n., 114, 121, Columbus, Rogers's, 177 Constant, Benjamin, 147 Constantinople, 115, 117, 301 Conversations with Lord Byron, Med- Conyers, Lady, 2, 48 Coolidge, Mr., of Boston, 399 Copyright of Childe Harold, 140 Corfu, 418 Corinne, 333, 341 Corinth, 119 Correspondence, Lady Melbourne's, 453 Correspondence, Leigh Hunt's, 432 m. Corri, the singing master, 269 Cottle, Amos, 83 Courier, The, 141, 198-9, 256, 280, Crabbe, 307 Crawshay, Mrs. Rose Mary, 70 n. line on, 290 n. Crosby, Ridge's London agent, 75-6 Curse of Minerva, 122, 125, 139 D'ABRANTÈS, Duchesse, 107 and note Dallas, Robert Charles, 58-9 n., 63 n., 66-7, 76, 81 and note-2, 84 and Dante, 9, 54, 232, 250, 368, 379 m.; Davy, Sir Humphry, 315; visit to Deformed Transformed, The, 379-80 Delawarr, Lord (George John), 27–8,30, 72, 103-4, 125 Delphi, Fountain of, 113 Detached Thoughts, 5, 40, 64 m., 90, Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire House, 156, 192; fortress of Whig Coalition, 146; waltzing Diadem Hill (near Annesley), 41 %. |