Lord Byron: So Much For Love

As a gentlemen, Byron did not want to accept money for his poetry even though he needed it because he did not want to be knows as a writer. Image was everything to Byron and his obsession was so fierce that he’d rather be in debt than be seen as a writer. Byron was notorious for his affairs with married women and began to have an affair with Lady Oxford, unlike most affairs, she wasn’t interested in exposing their affair but wanted to be his ‘political muse’. She wanted him to be everything that she saw in him and to venture into politics. The only problem was that politics was not what he was worried about, all Byron cared about was money, and he knew that he needed to marry soon. Byron had still been in a depression after Greece, his mothers’ death, and debts pilling up. All he thought about was the need to marry. While in this depression he connected with his half sister who was like him personality wise which probably made her attractive to him, since he saw himself as attractive. They fell in love and began engaging in sexual relations even though they knew it was socially wrong. His sister suggested that he marry to clear his debt and he did. His wife Anabell, was intriguing to Byron because she was the one woman that did not throw herself all over him and accept his invitations to bed. Soon after they married, while on their honeymoon, Byron became cruel to her. Once he got in bed with her and she did not pleasure his needs he was tired of her. They were completely opposites and did not enjoy one another’s company. Byron’s sister shortly after the honeymoon moved in with them, whether or not her and Byron were involved is not known but it is suspected that they were. Byron and Anabell had a daughter, and when Byron did not stop gambling they took a short break. When she went to her parent’s house for the break Anabell revealed the problems and blackmailed Byron’s involvements in homosexuality to terminate the marriage without hurting Anabell’s name.