Passion : A Novel of the Romantic Poets

by Morgan, Jude

• ISBN13: 9780312343682
• ISBN10: 031234368X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, three poetsÂ--Byron, Shelley, and KeatsÂ--come to prominence, famous and infamous, for their vivid personalities, and their glamorous, shocking, and sometimes tragic lives. In this electrifying novel, those lives are explored through the eyes of the women who knew and loved themÂ--intensely, scandalously. Four women from widely different backgrounds are linked by a sensational fate. Mary Shelley: the gifted daughter of gifted parents, for whom passion leads to exile, loss, and a unique fame. Lady Caroline Lamb: born to fabulous wealth and aristocratic position, who risks everything for the ultimate love affair. Fanny Brawne: her quiet, middle-class girlhood is transformedÂ--and immortalizedÂ--by a disturbing encounter with genius. Augusta Leigh: the unassuming poor relation who finds herself flouting the greatest of all taboos. With the originality, richness, and daring of the poets themselves,Passionpresents the Romantic generation in a new and unforgettable light.

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"A wonderful book--rich, authentic, beautifully written and, yes, passionate."—Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

"I loved Jude Morgan's Passion, which seems to me to achieve exactly what historical fiction is for, namely to illuminate the past to the present... Compellingly written, and stylish with it"—Joanna Trollope, author of Brother and Sister

"I can't remember when I last read a book that was so elegantly and stylishly written and yet at the same time so absolutely engrossing and compelling."—Diane Pearson, author of The Summer of the Barshinskeys