Lady Byron's Unpublished Letters
A startling charge against Lord Byron's marriage revealed
A tantalizing glimpse of a scandal a half-century old: newly surfaced letters in which Lady Byron accused her husband of marrying her purely out of a calculated desire for revenge.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Page 4
1 min readThe declaration, in one of Lady Byron's unpublished letters, that Lord Byron married her "with the deepest determination of revenge, which he avowed on the day of our marriage, and which he has executed ever since with systematic and increasing cruelty," opens up a startling possibility of the marriage relation, when regarded indissoluble, as in the Roman Catholic church. A Dumas might seize upon the horrible romance of such a suggestion, without making it more hopeless than its reality in actual life.
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