An American Scottish Foundation 2025 Tartan Week Talk
The National Library of Scotland
in association with
The American-Scottish Foundation
Present
Lord Byron
A Scottish Perspective
From the Archives
A Talk by Sir Drummond Bone, National Library of Scotland Chair.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
6 PM Talk & Reception
Tickets $55
The University Club
1 W 54th Street
New York, New York
''I am half a Scot by birth, and bred, a whole one" - exploring the archives of Lord Byron at the National Library of Scotland
Discover how Lord Byron became a sensation through the archives of his publisher John Murray, also a Scot by heritage, which are now preserved in the National Library of Scotland. Join the Library’s Chair, Sir Drummond Bone, in going behind the scenes of Byron’s literary life - not forgetting the scandals along the way and his death in the Greek war of independence - and seeing how he and his publisher dominated poetry well beyond the English speaking world.
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Presented by: Sir Drummond Bone
National Library of Scotland Chair
Sir Drummond Bone is an acknowledged expert on Lord Byron's work and is Vice-President of the Byron Society. He was editor of The Byron Journal from 1978 to 1988 and has been co-editor of journal Romanticism since 1995. He is a member of the Steering Group of the Council for College and University English, a Fellow of the English Association, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (1995) and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008).