Byron and one of his moving letters to Edleston.
Letter courtesy of Newstead Abbey. Image made with Canva.
Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
Portrait of the ladies of the Bluestocking Society as the characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo.
National Portrait Gallery
People have always wanted others to know they’re smart, and what better way to do that than with clothes?
The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves.
Thomas Nast/Harper's Weekly/The Met
A tale of vampirism would have been shocking to readers at the time if was published, not because of its monsters, but its politics.