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Byron - Poet, Letter Writer and Lover
Take a stroll around Newstead Abbey and there's a good chance
you'll be inspired to write a verse.
Lord Byron's
romantic poems have certainly stood the test of time.
His interpretation
of Don
Juan is often thought to be a reflection of his varied love
life.
Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Oxford, Augusta Leigh and Lady Frances
Webster are but four ladies with whom he is alleged to have been
closely related.
Annabella Milbanke
became his wife and bore him a daughter. But the marriage didn't last
and Byron left the British Isles never to return. His time abroad
resulted in more romances and illegitimate children. Don Juan indeed.
DH Lawrence
Who
would have thought Eastwood could have produced something as steamy
as Lady Chatterley's romance with Mellors.
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But the town's
most famous son, DH
Lawrence, wasn't content to produce one couple so willing to perform
in public (or at least between the pages of a paperback).
In The Rainbow
and Sons and Lovers more complicated relationships were developed.
Two of the central characters in The Rainbow reappeared in Women In
Love.
Lawrence explored
the romantic ups and the downs of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. While
Ursula found love with Rupert Birkin, her sister's relationship
with industrialist Gerald Crich, was far less satisfactory.
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