The complete online text of The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt.

Annals of the Parish (1821) was the Scottish novel that established John Galt as a major proponent of regional realism; along with books such as Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824), Annals offered a model for early Canadian sketch writers such as S...

Considering his vast and diversified literary output, as well as his colorful career as a businessman and promoter of various enterprises, it is ironic that John Galt, a Scots novelist contemporaneous with Sir Walter Scott, should be so little known toda...

John Galt was born in Irvine, in the county of Ayrshire, Scotland, on 2 May 1779. His father, also named John, was master of a West Indian trading vessel; Galt described him as remarkably handsome, easygoing, and trustworthy but of only modest ability. H...

One of the best books ever written about George Gordon Lord Byron is that of Iris Origo, to whom Louis Auchincloss has paid tribute as being one of the writers important in his life. It was she who found and translated from the...

Byron: Life and Legend Fiona MacCarthy John Murray in the UK Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the U.S. 674 pages, $35. FIONA MacCarthy has written the most important Byron biography in half a century, published by John Murray, Byron's...