ABSTRACT
Byron, Manfred (1817); Gentleman’s Magazine, LXXXVII-ii (July 1817), 45-47. This review, in its original version in the newly founded daily newspaper Day and New Times, was notable for containing the most explicit public statement that linked Byron with the crime of incest (with his half-sister Augusta). See Leslie Marchand, Byron, II, 699. That the Gentleman’s Magazine would reprint even an expurgated text of the review (see p. 47) suggests that the rumors were quite widely credited. The editor of the Day and New Times, and perhaps the reviewer in this series, was Hazlitt’s brother-in-law, Dr. John Stoddart, who was (as H. R. Fox Bourne puts it) “too honest to be a good Tory, and too crotchety to be anything else.”
