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Decoder Ring: The Stowe-Byron Controversy
FromSlate Culture
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 3, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an exposé of Lord Byron's incestuous affair in 1869, it nearly destroyed The Atlantic Monthly, and threw the reputations of two literary icons into chaos. This is a story about 18th century scandal, cancel culture, and Bad Literary Men, that isn't so different from how these stories play out in our own time.
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Released:
Feb 3, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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