Buy this book on-line BAKEWELL, MICHAEL & MELISSA: : Augusta LEIGH: BYRON'S HALF-SISTER - A BiographyLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2000. ISBN 0185619754.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj (published price £25.00).Bright,clean, subject colour miniature portrait illustrated upper wrap and b/w letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy? Unblemished,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and dark blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xxpp+1-438pp [paginated] includes contents+illus lists/ tables,a dedication,double-page Byron+
Holdernesse genealogical trees + 1pp Trevanion/Byron connection,notes on names+
spelling,a preface,a prologue,30 chapters,
16pp contemporary b/w illus/portraits
etc.,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between
pp140/1 and pp284/5 respectively,an epilogue,source notes,a bibliography,an index,acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and 6pp blanks to rear.
Augusta Leigh was the child of one of the
most sensational scandals to hit Georgian England - the seduction of the wilful and beautiful Marchioness of Carmarthen by
'Mad Jack' Byron - and scandal,of one kind
or another,was to pursue Augusta for the
rest of her life and even beyond the grave.
Her marriage to her cousin,equerry and companion of the Prince of Wales,Colonel George Leigh,who fell from grace when it came to light that he had cheated the Prince over the sale of a horse and fiddled regimental accounts to fund his gambling habit,brought her nothing but poverty and seven children.Her love affair
with her half-brother,Lord Byron,was largely responsible for his separation from his wife and his subsequent exile.
Lady Byron,determined that Augusta's incestuous liaison should not go unpunished,waged a relentless war of attrition against her,in which Augusta's daughter,Elizabeth Medora,also became entangled.This is the first biography of Augusta Leigh for over thirty years,and draws on a wealth of new material from archives all over the country.It sheds new
light not only on this remarkable and courageous woman,but on Georgian and Regency society and the life of the court.
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