Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (TRIH ep 442, part 3)
1816 · Resource
This episode examines Lord Byron's sudden celebrity after the publication of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the scandalous personal relationships that followed. Holland and Sandbrook discuss how print and commercial culture elevated Byron into a new kind of celebrity, comparing him to modern phenomena.
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