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Byron and Newstead : the aristocrat and the abbey
- Title
- Byron and Newstead : the aristocrat and the abbey / John Beckett with Sheila Aley.
- Author
- Beckett, J. V.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2001], ©2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Aley, Sheila.
- Description
- 347 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron, died in 1824, but he is today regarded as the leading English romantic poet, with a reputation which is truly global. Born in 1788, he inherited Newstead Abbey in 1798, a landed estate which had been badly run by his predecessor in title, the fifth Lord Byron.
- This book offers a reappraisal of Byron's tenure of landed estates, an entirely new explanation of events surrounding the sale of his ancestral home at Newstead Abbey, and new thoughts on his financial circumstances during his years in Italy and Greece. Byron is examined as a landed aristocrat, and his financial and business affairs are unravelled in this context."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Nottinghamshire (England) > Biography
- Country homes > England > Nottinghamshire > History > 19th century
- Poets, English > 19th century > Biography
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Homes and haunts > England > Nottinghamshire
- Newstead Abbey
- Aristocracy (Social class) > England > Nottinghamshire > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-338) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Byrons and Newstead -- 2. William, Fifth Lord Byron: Landowning Aristocrat, 1743-70 -- 3. William, Fifth Lord Byron: The Man and the Myth, 1770-98 -- 4. The Estate during the Minority, 1798-1809 -- 5. Lord Byron Comes of Age: Funding the Heir, 1803-9 -- 6. Lord Byron as Landlord, 1809-12 -- 7. The Abortive Sale, 1812-14 -- 8. Marriage and Debt, 1814-15 -- 9. The Sale of Newstead -- 10. An Exiled Aristocrat, 1818-23 -- 11. Greece, Glory, and Financial Security -- 12. Byron and Newstead: The Myth -- App. The Byron Family.
- ISBN
- 0874137519 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001027635
- OCLC
- ocm46769724
- SCSB-4239866
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries