The Stowe-Byron controversy : a complete resume of all that has been written and said upon the subject, re-printed from 'The Times', 'Saturday review', 'Daily News', 'Pall Mall Gazette', 'Daily Telegraph', etc. Together with an impartial review of the merits of the case / by the editor of 'Once a week'.

  • Dallas, E. S. (Eneas Sweetland), 1828-1879.
Date:
1869
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    here he first went to school to a Mr. Bowers. He was sub- sequently educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where the rooms he occupied and a spout he climbed up on to the roof of the library are still shown. In 1798 his grand-uncle having died, the poet and his mother removed to Newstead, then much dilapidated. In 1799 he went to school to Dr. Glennie, at Dulwich, and thence removed to Harrow. In 1803 he fell desperately in love with Miss Chaworth, beiim his third affair of the heart. In 1807 he left the University of Cambridge without any emotions of regret or gratitude. In 1S08 he published “ Hours of Idleness: by a Minor.” His poems were so severely criticised that he solemnly forswore authorship, but through a friend’s influence he was persuaded to publish the “ Childe Harold,” and “ awoke one fine morning to find himself famous.” He proposed to Miss Milbanke in Sep- tember, 1814, and was accepted; this was his second offer to her. Miss Milbanke and Lord Byron were married at Seaham, in the county of Durham, the seat of the lady’s father, on the 2nd of January, 1815. Their married life lasted only for a year and a few days (although Mrs. Stowe in her article twice mentions two years as the period of the union; and further, she mis-spells Miss Milbanke’s name throughout her narrative). Lord Byron, after the separation, left England, and lived for some time in Italy. Whilst there, one of his mistresses was the Countess Guiccioli, whose “ Memoirs,” recently published, called forth from Mrs. Stowe her defence of Lady Byron’s character. Lord Byron lived at Ravenna; then at Pisa; afterwards at Genoa. He wanted excitement and change, and thought at one time of the South American continent, at another of Spain, but in the end went to Greece, where he behaved with bravery and prudence during the war of insurrection, and where he met his most untimely death. Lord Byron’s short but brilliant career terminated at Mis- solonghi, in Greece, on the 19th of April, 1824. His