"Under the influence of the doctrine and belief of free love, I saw the two first poets of England . . . become monsters."With her memoir she hoped to demonstrate "what evil passion free love assured, what tenderness it dissolves; how it abused affections that should be the solace and balm of life, into a destroying scourge". She continued: "The worshippers of free love not only preyed upon one another" but also on themselves, "turning their existence into a perfect hell".
She felt that "religion and morality of truth" demanded that she describe the misconduct of the "two great poets".
from The Observer: Byron's lover takes revenge from the grave
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