MARTIN GARRETT is an independent scholar and writer. His postgraduate research was on Renaissance drama and he specialized at first in this period, editing Critical Heritage volumes on Massinger and Sidney. More recently he has worked mainly on Romantic and Victorian literature. He has also written literary and cultural guides to southern Europe, France and Cambridge. He is the author of volumes on Byron, Mary Shelley and the Brownings in the British Library Writers' Lives series, and has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses for the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.

**Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Award 2011, from the International Byron Society** 'Byron's range of accomplishments and interests is astonishing...This is an attractive guide that can be read for enjoyment as well as for its wide-ranging information.' Reference Reviews

• Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Chronology Abbreviations Entries A-Z Bibliography