The Byron Society of America was founded in 1973 by Marsha M. Manns and Leslie A. Marchand to further the study of the life and work of Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). In 1995 members of the BSA founded the Byron Society Collection, which presents a material history of Byron literary and cultural studies from the 19th century to the present day. Conceived as a living collection to which Byron Society members and friends could contribute their own collections, it has grown significantly over the decades, and houses the books and papers of the two most significant Byron scholars of the twentieth century, Leslie A. Marchand and Jerome McGann. It is housed in Drew University's special collections.
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