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The romantic era is particularly rich in biographical materials in a wide variety of forms: journalistic puffs and sneers, obituaries, published correspondence, and memoirs. These are often replete with criticism and anecdotes yielding valuable insights into who was saying and doing what to whom—and why. Lord Byron and his Times is building a cross-searchable archive of this material, using it as a source of names, titles, and relationships recorded in the data files.

Leigh Hunt, “Memoir of Mr. James Henry Leigh Hunt, written by himself” in Monthly Mirror (April 1810) 243-48
Anonymous, “R. C. Dallas” [obituary], in Morning Post (6 November 1824)
Francis Hodgson, “Biography. Rev. Robert Bland,” in Literary Gazette (23 April 1825)
William Henry Humphreys: “Journal of a Visit to Greece” in A Picture of Greece in 1825. (London: Henry Colburn, 1826).
William Henry Humphreys: “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine (August 1826)
William Henry Humphreys: “Adventures of an English Officer in Greece. No. II.” in New Monthly Magazine (September 1826)
William Field: Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., 2 vols (1828)
Leigh Hunt: Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828)
Henry Roscoe: The Life of William Roscoe, 2 vols (1833)
John Gibson Lockhart: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 7 vols (1837-38)
Thomas Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (1847)
Horace Smith, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance,” in The New Monthly Magazine (1847-48)
William Howitt, “Leigh Hunt,” in Homes and Haunts of the English Poets (1847)
Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (1849-50)
William Jerdan, Autobiography, 4 vols (1852-53)
Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance, 3 vols (1854)
Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, 2 vols (1855)
Cyrus Redding, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, 3 vols (1858)
Edward John Trelawny: Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858)
Cyrus Redding, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell, 2 vols (1860)
Lady Morgan: Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence 2 vols (1863)
Charles Knight: Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century 3 vols (1864-65)
William Carew Hazlitt: Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (1867)
Alfred Guy K. L’Estrange: Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (1871)
Charles Kegan Paul: William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries, 2 vols (1876)
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke: Recollections of Writers (1878)
James T. Hodgson: Memoir of the Rev. Francis Hodgson, 2 vols (1878)
P. W. Clayden: Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries, 2 vols (1889)
Samuel Smiles: Memoir of John Murray, 2 vols (1891)
Andrew Lang: The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart, 2 vols (1897)
Thomas Creevey: The Creevey Papers, 2 vols (1903)
Charles Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters, 2 vols (1905)
John Whishaw: The Pope of Holland House (1906)
Charles Macfarlane: Reminiscences of a Literary Life (1917)
Mabell, Countess of Airlie: In Whig Society, 1775-1818 (1921)