Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny
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David Crane. Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny
LORD BYRON’S JACKAL
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
NAUPLIA
1 THE WOLF CUB
2 THE SUN AND THE GLOW-WORM
3 ET IN ARCADIA EGO
4 ODYSSEUS
5 THE DEATH OF BYRON
6 PARNASSUS
7 THE PLOT
8 WHITCOMBE
9 ASSASSINATION
10 HUMPHREYS
11 ENTER THE MAJOR
12 SHAME
13 THE LAST OF GREECE
14 GOING PUBLIC
15 THE KEEPER OF THE FLAME
NOTES TO THE TEXT. NAUPLIA
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
REFERENCE NOTES. NAUPLIA
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
SOURCES TO NOTES
SOURCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
PRINTED SOURCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PRAISE
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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THE LIFE OF
Edward John Trelawny
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After the public humiliations of the King’s Bench and Consistory Courts, Trelawny was ready to face the world, a Byronic hero with a history and personality to match. In the depths of his imagination he had forged an identity which seemed more vividly true to his sense of self than the reality he had left behind, and if the same might be said of every creative liar, what distinguishes him from a Savage or Baron Corvo is that for the next five years life was to give him what he wanted with an almost Faustian prodigality – years in which invention became a self-fulfilling ordinance, and events danced to the tune of the imagination until fantasy and life pursued each other in an unbreakable circle.
If psychologically he was prepared for a new life, financially, too, he was at last able to expand his horizons. Through all the rows with his father he had continued to draw an allowance of three hundred pounds a year, and while that was scarcely enough to support a family in comfort, for a single man ready to live abroad it opened up possibilities of leisured and gentlemanly self-indulgence. On 19 May 1819, the Royal Assent to his divorce was given, freeing him of those domestic ties which had shackled his turbulent spirit. The seven lean years were over. Caroline, at last, was out of his life, taking their younger daughter, Eliza, with her. The elder child, Julia, had been farmed out to friends of the Whites. He seems to have backtracked too from the brief intensity of his friendship with Augusta, allowing it to mellow into a mutual warmth which lasted throughout their lives.
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