A groundbreaking work of Romantic biography; David Crane's book is an astonishingly original examination of Byron, and a radical approach to biography.
Crane focuses on the lifelong feud between Augusta – Byron's half-sister with whom he had a passionate affair – and Annabella, his society wife. Recreating a meeting between the two, years after Byron's death – the Romantic 'High Noon' – he explores the emotional and sexual truth and the human vulnerability that lie at the heart of the Byron story.
The Kindness of Sisters is not only rigorous in its scholarship, but also superbly compelling drama. Crane's book combines passion, revenge and recrimination in nineteenth century Britain with all the intensity of a Greek tragedy.
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‘In Lord Byron’s Jackal, David Crane brings Edward Trelawny – seaman, scoundrel, friend of Byron and Shelley startlingly to life. Here is a wonderful adventure story about a man who invented himself in the image of the Byronic hero and lived to the hilt the final passionate and violent flowering of Romanticism in the cause of Greek independence.’
STELLA TILLYARD
‘Fascinating and oddly disturbing, Crane vividly evokes the horror of a revolution in which both sides were equally brutal. His is a complex book, but as a narrative of mingled fraud and genius it is altogether convincing.’
Jan Morris, Independent
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