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226 Years Young! Tee Bylo Celebrates with a Ramble and a Slice or Two of...
Today our noble Poet is 226 years young and I'm celebrating with a slice or two of this delicious cake that was purchased in his honour! In 1821 and whilst living in Ravenna, Byron began a journal in...
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Colwick Hall: Where Dreams Come to Life
When you allow yourself to be opened up to the wonders of the world, now and again you'll come across something - or somewhere - that instantly wins a place in your heart. During a recent research trip...
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A Lady's Visit to a Poet's Abode in St James's Street...
Went to Byron's - No 8 St James's Street - in expectation of going to Harrow, a scheme he had resolved on to avoid the threatened visit of a lady. At twelve o'clock, just as were going, several...
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Summoned to the Court of Lady Melbourne...
Dear Ld B - they are gone this Morning to Roehampton and return Satur day. If you like to call upon me to morrow, you will find me at home & I am the more anxious not to miss this opportunity of...
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Standing on the Corner of Bennet Street...
No letter from **; but I must not complain. The respectable Job says, "Why should a living man complain?" I really don't know, except it be that a dead man can't...I wish I could settle to reading...
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Happy in My Way at Newstead Abbey...
My head is at this moment in a state of confusion, from various causes, which I can neither describe nor explain - but let that pass.My employments have been very rural - fishing, shooting, bathing,...
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I Shall Be Making a Visit to Albany Some Day...
I begin to think that after the great cake baked, and the epithalamium composed, with all the other prologues to the performance, the part of Spouse, like that of Hamlet, will be omitted "by particular...
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Shut Up by Ourselves at Halnaby Hall...
My dearest Aunt - We were married yesterday at ten upon ye. Clock - so there's an end of that matter and the beginning of many others. - Bell has gone through all the ceremonies with great fortitude -...
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A Dreary Coast? The Polite Tourist Begs to Differ...
Upon this dreary coast, we have nothing but county meetings and shipwrecks; and I have this day dined upon fish, which probably dined upon the crews of several colliers lost in the late gales.But I saw...
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A Sylph-Like Tiptoe Around 13 Piccadilly Terrace...
Darling Duck - I feel as if B loved himself, which does me more good than anything else, and makes young Pip jump.You would laugh to see, and still more to hear, the effects of your absence in the...
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To Drury Lane by Appointment...
Why have I not heard from you before this? Since last Thursday I have thought of nothing else but you...I was in the boxes the whole of Tamerlane on Monday, right opposite you. I went to see if you...
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In a Hurry to See Mr Murray...
My dear Mr. Murray, You're in a damn'd hurry,To set up this ultimate Canto;But (if they don't rob us)You'll see Mr. HobhouseWill bring it safe in his portmanteau.For the Journal you hint of,As ready to...
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In Search of George Gordon in Bath...
Dear Murray - You need not send "the Blues" which is a mere buffoonery never meant for publication. - The papers to which I allude in case of Survivorship, - are collections of letters &c. since I...
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At Rest in the Market Town of Hucknall...
Dear Sir - Tell Mr. Hobhouse that I wrote to him a few days ago from Ferrara. - It will therefore be idle in him or you to wait for any further answers or returns of proofs from Venice - as I have...
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'April 19 1824' Lord Byron is Dead...
"The misfortune that had befallen us is terrible and irreparable.I scarcely have words to describe it.Lord Byron is deadYour friend, my friend and father, the light of this century, the boast of your...
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For Why Should We Mourn? 'Memento Mori' Lord Byron...
In MemoriamGeorge Gordon Noel ByronSixth Baron ByronBorn January 22 1788Died April 19 18241Bright be the place of thy soul!No lovelier spirit than thineE'er burst from its mortal control,In the orbs of...
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“… the Countess Benzone – who is a Venetian Lady Melbourne…”
It was a typical Saturday afternoon and I had no big plans, apart from a trip to the greengrocer for my fruit and veg. Halfway there, and I saw a poster advertising an exhibition by local artists, the...
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Newstead and I Will Stand or Fall Together... Tee Bylo Makes Plans!
It is no secret that I am a passionate devotee of the history of Lord Byron as well as an artisan who creates 'Small Worlds' in 12th scale and it was perhaps only a matter of time before I would create...
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'Plain Yet Decent', Byron Bids Adieu to a Most Amiable Mamma...
I thought my dear Augusta that your opinion of my meek mamma would coincide with mine...But she flies into a fit of phrenzy, upbraids me as if I was the most undutiful wretch in existence, rakes up the...
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In Defense of Byron's 'Bell'...
As much as I adore the poetry, letters and "scribblings" of Lord Byron and remain intrigued by his unique and fascinating life; I also believe that his image as the original Regency "bad boy" has been...
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Introducing Byron... Lord of the Vampyre!
Was Lord Byron the First English Vampire?A Halloween EssayLord Byron, the quintessential rake, was renowned for his outrageous sex life, and inspired equal parts fascination and disgust in the minds of...
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It's Pistols at Lunchtime as Byron and His Poetic Comrades Fight the Undead...
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England.Summer 1815La Parte Une:Lunchtime. (Nearly)George Gordon Byron’s eyes snapped open and he stared at the canopy of his fourposter bed above him, realising he was...
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227 Years Young! Tee Bylo Celebrates with a Ramble and a Slice or Two of...
It's 'Sweets for My Sweet' today as our noble Poet is 227 years young and I'm going to celebrate with a slice or two of this delicious birthday cake that was purchased in his honour and despite a...
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It's February and the Outlook Looks Sticky for Lord Byron and the Arctic...
I just adore the song by the Arctic Monkeys called Black Treacle taken from their fabulous album Suck It and See...Now it's getting dark and the sky looks stickyMore like black treacle than tarBlack...
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You've Been Framed! As Lord Byron Rages Against the Machine; Tee Bylo's in a...
Today is February 27 and on this day (some years and then some more!) my mother was delivered of me and some 203 years earlier Lord Byron delivered his maiden speech in the House of Lords and by some...
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