Apr 28, 2020
7 min read
When a Famous Writer Suffers Abuse
How did Lord Byron’s childhood injury affect his later identity as a writer?
He was a romantic poet. He was born with a deformed foot. He inherited a British peerage. Lord Byron is famous for many things, but few know that he was also abused as a child. When Byron himself came to review his life in an adult journal, he gave little weight to his fame, or…
