May 2019 Issue Miranda Seymour A Songbird in Knightsbridge L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’ By Lucasta Miller LR
July 1998 Issue Michael Waterhouse One of Literature’s Greatest Liars Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny By David Crane
January 1989 Issue Antonia Doura Frankenstein Psychoanalysed Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters By Anne K Mellor
October 2000 Issue Pamela Norris She Longed for Security and Affection Mary Shelley By Miranda Seymour
November 2016 Issue Seamus Perry Thrill of the Chase This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer By Richard Holmes LR
April 2016 Issue Nicholas Roe Obsession of an Opium-Eater Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey By Frances Wilson
November 2014 Issue Seamus Perry Eat, Drink & Be Merry The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb By Stanley Plumly LR
November 2008 Issue William St Clair The Spirit of His Age William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man By Duncan Wu LR
March 2008 Issue Diana Athill Astonishing Intimacy The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth By Frances Wilson LR
July 2007 Issue Frances Wilson Hardly Human Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle By Janet Todd Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself By Ann Wroe LR
July 2013 Issue William St Clair Pen & Sword Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution By Roderick Beaton LR
October 2013 Issue Duncan Wu No Scribbling Rivalry William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’ By Lucy Newlyn LR
November 2013 Issue Seamus Perry ‘What a set! what a world!’ The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron By Andrew McConnell Stott
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