In 1869 Stowe published Lady Byron’s private account of why she left the poet, including the charge of his incest with his half-sister, and was attacked on both sides of the Atlantic. This book is her reply: a history of the controversy since 1816, her recollections of Lady Byron as she knew her, and a sustained argument for the truth of the story.
A strange and fascinating episode in literary history, from the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Download the free EPUB.