Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Why did she marry him?’ Annabella Milbanke, Byron’s wife. Was it in trying to cast off Byron’s exotic shadow that Seymour, a wonderful writer whose control is usually just so, allowed herself to get so bogged down in unnecessary detail? A further problem lies with Milbanke, later a noted educational reformer. I see why Seymour was tempted to do this, to submit to all her most completist urges. • In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour is published by Simon & Schuster (£25).

Source: The Guardian March 18, 2018 06:56 UTC