He there for the first time saw his cousin, the beautiful Mrs. Webster recorded: “I did take him to Lady Sitwell’s party in Seymour Road. She was in mourning, wearing a deep black dress with spangles on it. When he saw her for the first time at a party in June 1814, he was entranced. She was Anne Wilmot, wife of his cousin Sir Robert Wilmot. There were many women in the Romantic poet’s life – it’s not for nothing he was called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” – but the woman who inspired this verse was not one of his many lovers. This lovely poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron, was written in 1814. Portrait of Lord Byron by Richard Westall ‘The Story of an African Farm’ – Olive Schreiner.‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ – Muriel Spark.‘The Leopard’ – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
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