Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
The Byron Society Library is coming to Drew---Who was this 19th c. superstar?
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
A literary take on Byron’s “villainous heroes, satiric barbs, brooding and sometimes gloomy verse, seductive good looks, and the rakish behavior that for decades after his death made him anathema . . .”
Online, under Research Resources, English
Literature Resource Center
Search “Byron, George Gordon” or “Lord Byron” to acquaint yourself with Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism of Byron--- and Byron’s own criticism, like the deliciously snarky “Letter to the Editor of 'My Grandmother's Review.’”
Online, under Research Resources.
Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s
Part of Byron’s romance was his romantic imbroglios. Read up on the scandals of Byron’s life and then check out his Byronic Hero-- “an energetic spirit, a rebellious individualism, and a vast capacity for feeling and suffering.”
REF 941.073 E56e
Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837
Investigate Lady Caroline Lamb, who caricatured Byron in Glenarvon. The index (under “Byron”) yields further gems, such as “attacked Castlereagh; attacked Elgin; encouraged Coleridge to publish; satirized Lake Poets…”
REF 941.07 B862b
British Writers
For literary-biographical scandalmongering on Byron, see vol. IV, p. 171-194.
REF 820.9 B862b
Credo Reference
Who said, “There is no believing a word they say . . .there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends” ? Search the “Quotations” to find out.
Online, under Research Resources.
Notable Mathematicians: From Ancient Times to the Present
Byron’s daughter, Augusta Ada, Lady Lovelace, became a mathematician and wrote the first computer program, for the Babbage Engine, though she went on to follow in her father’s footsteps of family scandal.
REF 510.922 N899n