The name Lord Byron instantly brings to mind scandal, heartbreak, and that unforgettable description: “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Those words came from Lady Caroline Lamb herself. When they met ...

ITALY in the spring of 1819 was the setting of what many have regarded as Byron’s most important love. At a party in Venice in April, Byron was introduced to Countess Teresa Guiccioli. The attraction ...

In actual Regency London — nothing like the frothy, fantastical setting of TV’s “Bridgerton” — poets rivaled royalty for star power, and upon the publication of his poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” ...

Not many writers furnish enough material for a biography focused entirely on their love lives. In his short life (1788-1824), George Gordon, Lord Byron, managed to cram in just about every sort of ...

It’s July 5, 1807. A drunk and tearful young man sits in his college rooms at Cambridge writing in a “chaos of hope and sorrow” to his childhood friend, Elizabeth Pigot. He has just parted with the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

IT WAS in the spring of 1819 that Byron and Contessa Teresa Guiccioli first met, in Venice. He was thirty-one, she nineteen and married to Conte Alessandro Guiccioli, an eccentric nobleman of Ravenna, ...