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Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know may refer to: "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", a phrase used by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) to describe her lover Lord Byron. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album), 1986.
Oct 30, 2018 · Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university—a wide-eyed boy from the country—and where three Irish literary giants also came of age.
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Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know Trilogy by Chloé Esposito. 3 primary works • 3 total works. Book 1. Mad. by Chloé Esposito. 3.16 · 3,540 Ratings · 534 Reviews · published 2017 · 45 editions. In this compulsively readable debut, set between L… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Bad. by Chloé Esposito.
- Byron’s Huge FANDOM Was Known as Byromania
- He Suffered from Piracy
- Byron Was The Inspiration For The First Vampire Novel
- He Had A Menagerie
- Byron Died in Greek Exile
Coined by his wife Annabella, the term Byromania was used to describe the fanatical fanfare around Byron. He was one of the first major celebrities to receive en-masse fan mail, much of which was from anonymous female admirers.
Arrrrrr! No, not that kind of piracy. Byron’s rise to fame coincided with mass mechanised publishing. This meant that many people were able to read his poetry, but also that unscrupulous publishers were able easily to steal Byron’s work without his permission.
One night in 1816 – during a drizzly holiday by Lake Geneva – Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, and their doctor friend John William Polidori told each other improvised ghost stories. 18-year-old Mary (not yet married to Shelley) turned her idea into the novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. But Polidori also adapted his tale into a...
It wasn’t just dogs and bears Byron was fond of. When Percy Shelley visited his house in Italy he wrote in his diary that he saw “ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon...” he then added a PS which read “… I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane....
Byron racked up debts, and became so scandalous for his saucy poetry and love life that he went into European exile in 1816 and never returned. His heart may have (literally) stayed in Greece, but his body rests in the churchyard near his ancestral home Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.
Jun 13, 2017 · In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on living it.
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Apr 7, 2021 · Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Mythical Life of Errol Flynn. Errol Flynn’s My Wicked, Wicked Ways is a canonical celebrity autobiography—as outlandish and problematic as it is utterly ...
Apr 11, 2020 · An amateur art historian uncovers the story of a mysterious woman who inspired some of the great works of Alexandre Dumas, Lord Byron, and Eugène...
