Byron's Women

One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley''s wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead.

Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron – mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. ...