Even in Arcadia: Sex, Literature, and Death

BERNARD NIGHTINGALE

Even in Arcadia: Sex, Literature, and Death

in The Byron Journal, No. 7, 1979, pp.20-38.

First mentioned in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.

Bernard Nightingale’s article incorrectly claiming that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater in a dual at Sidley Park in 1809 seems in retrospect a perfect storm of misinterpreted evidence. The Sidley Park game book, a letter from the distressed lady in question, and a handwritten challenge all pointed to a duel that in fact never occurred.