Byron spent a lot of time lamenting the decline of his family fortunes.
“Vain was the hope to avert our decline,” he wails in “Newstead Abbey”, using the ruin of their estate as a metaphor for the family itself. Like all decent Romantic poetry, this dabbles in melodrama, but if Emily Brand’s thoroughly researched and juicily readable account of the lives of his ancestors is to be believed, Byron wasn’t far off the money.
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