Galt, the Scottish novelist, sailed with the young Byron in the Mediterranean in 1809 and drew on that acquaintance for this biography of 1830. He traces Byron’s lame, troubled childhood, Harrow and Cambridge, the Eastern travels behind Childe Harold, sudden fame, the disastrous marriage and exile, and the last years in Italy and Greece.
An early, independent-minded life of Byron by someone who knew him, still valuable beside the later biographies. Download the free EPUB.