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Vol. 21 No. 18 · 16 September 1999
pages 12-13 | 4139 words
On Top of Everything
Thomas Jones
- Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler
Hamish Hamilton, 835 pp, £25.00, June 1999, ISBN 0 241 13260 6
Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
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Letters
Vol. 21 No. 21 · 28 October 1999
From Paul Usherwood
In his review of Benita Eisler's new biography of Byron (LRB, 16 September), Thomas Jones refers to the poet's three weeks with his new wife at 'Seaham on the Yorkshire coast'. I recommend he doesn't pay a visit. Actually in Co. Durham, the house is now an old people's home and not at all what any devotee of Byron would want it to be like.
Paul Usherwood
Newcastle upon Tyne
Vol. 21 No. 22 · 11 November 1999
From Alan Myers
Seaham Hall in Durham was sold by Sir Ralph Milbanke in 1821 and has since been used for a variety of purposes. It is, however, pace Paul Usherwood (Letters, 28 October), no longer an old people's home. It is empty and shrouded in scaffolding while being restored to house a luxury restaurant. The room where Annabella Milbanke married Lord Byron will, apparently, be retained and used for other weddings.
Seaham beach, 'the sparkling sands of my native shore', which the young Annabella, 'Hope's unchidden rover,/So joyfully hath bounded over', is also being restored after a century of colliery tipping. Even late in life, a pebble from Seaham beach was an acceptable present to Annabella.
Alan Myers
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
