Creator
GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD BYRON
Title
Byron’s Memoirs
Coverage
Unpublished manuscript.
Subject
Burned at London, May 17, 1824.
Description
Byron said it showed “the evils, moral and physical, of true dissipation,” and before his death, he ordered the book destroyed. In 1824, after violent argument, it was burnt by his publisher John Murray and John Cam Hobhouse on the hearth at Murray’s digs on Albemarle Street. Only 28 people got to read it. This biblioclasm was called “the greatest literary crime in history” [a title more typically predicated of Fifty Shades of Grey].
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