Poetic genius Lord Byron was anorexic, (人命などを)奪う,主張するs new 調書をとる/予約する which says 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業d may have 餓死するd himself to an 早期に death

  • The 私的な Life Of Lord Byron (人命などを)奪う,主張するs he 苦しむd from anorexia nervosa
  • 調書をとる/予約する argues it may have been the result of his 関係 with his mother
  • Author (人命などを)奪う,主張するs that the poet was subconsciously trying to ‘alter his 形態/調整’

He is one of the most dazzling and romantic 人物/姿/数字s in English literary history, famed for his lady-殺人,大当り ways and once 述べるd as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’.

Yet a new biography of the poet Lord Byron (人命などを)奪う,主張するs he 現実に 苦しむd from anorexia ? and may even have 餓死するd himself to an 早期に death.

The 私的な Life Of Lord Byron argues the eating disorder was the result of the emotional scars (打撃,刑罰などを)与えるd upon him by his ‘火山の’ aristocratic mother Catherine Gordon.

Passionate: Richard Chamberlain as Byron and Sarah Miles as Lady Caroline Lamb, in the 1972 film Lady Caroline Lamb

熱烈な: Richard Chamberlain as Byron and Sarah Miles as Lady Caroline Lamb, in the 1972 film Lady Caroline Lamb

Author Antony Peattie said: ‘Byron 苦しむd from anorexia nervosa and 餓死するd himself as a way of 発揮するing 支配(する)/統制する over his life.?

'Catherine was very 冷淡な and 敵意を持った to her son and she never lost the 適切な時期 to show her 憤慨 for the fact his father John had walked out on them. She had a 火山の temper and Byron often felt the 十分な 軍隊 of that.’?

Byron’s sense of 孤立/分離 is said to have been 悪化させるd by his 治療 at the 手渡すs of one of his nursemaids, May Gray, who is believed to have beaten and even sexually 乱用d him .

Born in 1788, Byron was obese as a child and became obsessed with 存在 thinner when he was 18 and 重さを計るd 14st 6lb, によれば 記録,記録的な/記録するs from the time.?

He shed 4st in months 予定 to a dietary and fitness 政権 that 含むd just one meal a day and 演習ing intensely while wearing six overcoats.

'Starved': A portrait of poetic genius Lord Byron

'餓死するd': A portrait of poetic genius Lord Byron

Byron 加速するd his 負わせる loss by using laxatives.?

In 1811, 老年の 21, he told friends he would rather ‘not 存在する’ than be large, and the に引き続いて year writer Robert Charles Dallas 公式文書,認めるd he was living off a 選び出す/独身 meal of two or three plain 薄焼きパン/素焼陶器s a day and a cup of tea.?

He said the diet made Byron feel ‘はしけ and livelier’ and gave him a ‘greater 命令(する) over himself in every 尊敬(する)・点’.

By 1812, Byron was one of the most famous people in Regency England and he appears to have 正当化するd his extreme eating habi ts with ‘heroic notions’ of 解放する/自由なing the spirit from his 団体/死体.

But subconsciously, によれば Peattie, he was trying to ‘alter his 形態/調整’ as a means of escaping his mother, who was overweight.?

The poet’s gaunt 外見 was in keeping with 流行の/上流の ideas on male beauty at the time and he made the most of his looks with many 性の conquests, 含むing the high-society beauty Lady Caroline Lamb and, scandalously, his own half-sister Augusta.?

But he developed 腎臓 problems and doctors unsuccessfully 勧めるd him to eat more.

Byron ? renowned for epic love poems such as Don Juan ? volunteered to fight in the Greek War of Independence in 1823 and Peattie argues that his eating disorders 与える/捧げるd to his death during the (選挙などの)運動をする after 契約ing a violent fever. He died 老年の just 36 on April 19, 1824.

The 私的な Life Of Lord Byron is 存在 crowdfunded and its publisher Unbound wants 投資家s. For £10, they will get a 数字表示式の copy; for £30, a hardback copy, or for £1,500 they will get a copy of a new print by artist Sir Howard Hodgkin, who is Peattie’s partner.

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