Frosts, ice and snow in June, July and August? It happened one legendary summer — and it took scientists about 100 years to ...

What did Lord Byron really get up to that summer of 1816? J.S. Tennant reviews "Byron in Geneva" by David Ellis in The Wall Street Journal.

FEW physicians, fresh from medical school, have undergone a more trying experience than John William Polidori, Lord Byron's traveling physician in 1816. With frustrations at every turn by the envir ...

The Villa Diodati, where Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron and John Polidori wrote ghost stories, eventually leading to the publishing of "Frankenstein" Around two hundred years ...

In 1816, 28-year-old George Gordon Byron left England by boat for self-imposed exile. The disgraced literary star travelled through Belgium and Germany to Switzerland, where he stayed from May 20 ...

On January 2, 1815, the 27-year-old Lord Byron married the odious Annabella Milbanke, daughter and heiress of Lord and Lady Wentworth. Their daughter, Ada, was born on December 10. On January 15 ...

Lord Byron and the Jungfrau – A Year Without Summer (1816) Thursday 21 ... a letter from Byron to Lady Byron (February 1816); Fanny Hensel - Mendelssohn's March from 'Das Jahr'; Byron's 'Fare ...

Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...

This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi.