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Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

10 best books like Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous (Catherine M. Andronik): The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis, Victorian People and Ideas, The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis, For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation, Journals and Letters, Byron: Life and Legend, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, John Keats: A New Life, The Late Lord Byron (Neversink), Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
AuthorThomas Dormandy
ISBN1852853328
This is a history of tuberculosis, including its social, artistic and human impact. Thomas Dormandy's account of the search for the cure is complemented by a description of its complex natural history; portraits of individual sufferers, including writers, artists and musicians, whose lives were...
Victorian People and Ideas
AuthorRichard D. Altick
The reputation of the Victorian age in England has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now higher than ever. In this important study, Richard D. Altick moves us toward an understanding of the social, intellectual, and theological crises that Carlyle and Dickens, Tennyson and Arnold were daily...
The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
AuthorJulie Kavanagh
ISBN0307270793
The little known, riveting story of the most famous courtesan of her time: muse and mistress of Alexandre Dumas fils and Franz Liszt, the inspiration for Dumas's The Lady of the Camellias and Verdi's La Traviata, one of the most sought after, adored women of 1840s Paris.

Born in 1824 in Normandy,...
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
AuthorVicki Oransky Wittenstein
ISBN1467706590
Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent.
Result: The world's first vaccine.
Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia.
Result: The beginnings of modern...
Journals and Letters
AuthorFanny Burney
ISBN0140436243
Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years...
Byron: Life and Legend
AuthorFiona MacCarthy
ISBN0571179975
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
AuthorBenita Eisler
ISBN0679740856
In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context...
John Keats: A New Life
AuthorNicholas Roe
ISBN0300124651
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure...
The Late Lord Byron (Neversink)
AuthorDoris Langley Moore
ISBN1935554484
“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.

Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that...
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
AuthorDaisy Hay
ISBN0374123756
Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective—celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism.

 The book focuses on the...
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
AuthorAndrea Warren
ISBN0547395744
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0375708383
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium...
Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre Raphaelites
AuthorFranny Moyle
ISBN0719521904
Desperate Romantics, a tie-in with a new BBC series, focuses on the scandals, rather than on the group’s ideas, social experiments or artistic development: Ruskin’s loveless marriage and critical championing of Millais, who then went off with Effie Ruskin, Rossetti’s various loves, above...
Scribbling Women
AuthorMarthe Jocelyn
ISBN0887769527
In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, complaining about the irritating fad of “scribbling women.” Whether they were written by professionals, by women who simply wanted to connect with others, or by those who wanted to leave a record of their lives, those “scribbles” are fascinating,...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
AuthorAlexandra Harris
ISBN0500251711
In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately,
wittily,...
Child of Light: Mary Shelley
AuthorMuriel Spark
This is a biography of one of my favourite writers, written by another of my favourite writers. That said, I enjoyed it but was left a bit unsatisfied, feeling that we never quite get inside Mary's heart and mind. And maybe that's okay because maybe it's none of our business, really, but as she is dead and...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
AuthorAlexandra Popoff
The six literary wives in the book, Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable aids to Russia’s most celebrated writers. Popoff draws from the women’s autobiographical...
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
AuthorRobert Gottlieb
ISBN1466827769
The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world’s most beloved novelist

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened...
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton
AuthorMary S. Lovell
ISBN0393320391
Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages),...
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
AuthorSusan Brigden
ISBN0142001252
No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and turbulence of the period-from Henry VIII's...
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
AuthorKathryn Hughes
ISBN0815411219
Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot (1819-1880) achieved lasting renown with the novels Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede. Her masterworks were written after years of living an unconventional life, including a scandalous voyage to Europe with the married writer and editor George Henry Lewes....
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle
AuthorElaine Showalter
ISBN0813520185
At the turn of the century, short stories by -- and often about -- "New Women" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality,...
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
AuthorRobert Sackville-West
ISBN0802779018
Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives, and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert...
To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
AuthorPat Shipman
ISBN0060505575
In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by compassion and an immediate, overpowering empathy...
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