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” ...

Liz and Caroline Byron helped produce more than just a boatload of awards for the Bishop Hoban girls swim team. Hoban won a gold medal in the 400 freestyle relay when Liz was a freshman. The Argents ...

THE YOUNG MELBOURNE—Lord David Cecil—Bobbs-Merrill ($3). When naive Alexandrina Victoria became Queen of England in 1837, she inherited as Prime Minister a fine worldly Whig: William Lamb, Lord ...

In this captivating biographical history, Larman (Restoration: The Year of the Great Fire) investigates nine women entangled with the brooding, handsome Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Noted ...

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 ...