Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 14 September 1820
“Ravenna, Sept. 14th, 1820.
“What! not a line? Well, have it your own way.
“I wish you would inform Perry that his stupid paragraph is the cause of all my newspapers being
stopped in Paris. The fools believe me in your infernal country, and have not sent on
their gazettes, so that I know nothing of your beastly trial of the Queen.
“I cannot avail myself of Mr.
Gifford’s remarks, because I have received none, except on the first
act.
“Yours, &c.
“P.S. Do, pray, beg the editors of papers to say any
thing blackguard they please; but not to put me amongst their arrivals. They do me
more mischief by such nonsense than all their abuse can do.”
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
William Gifford (1756-1826)
Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he
published
The Baviad (1794),
The Maeviad
(1795), and
The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming
the founding editor of the
Quarterly Review (1809-24).
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
James Perry (1756-1821)
Whig journalist; founder and editor of the
European Magazine
(1782), editor of the
Morning Chronicle (1790-1821).
