Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets (Hardcover) by Jude Morgan

from Cariola

Despite its unfortunate title (which sounds like something by Danielle Steel), Passion is a wonderful historical novel. (I agree with the reviewer who said this is NOT really a historical romance.) I was so delighted by it that I sought out everything I could find by Jude Morgan, and I've been re...

from Chatterbox

This is a bit of an epic -- a very dense 500-plus pages -- but fascinating. Not quite as good as the first of Morgan's books that I read under this pen-name (the others of his I've read were under the pseudonym of Hannah March; an excellent but short series of mysteries set in Georgian England.) ...

from wealhtheowwylfing

Historical fiction told from the points of view of women who loved three of the most famous Romatnic poets: Byron, Shelley, and Keats. It hews very closely to the known facts, revealing opinions and personalities so unobtrusively and naturally that the prodigious amount of research Morgan must ha...

from starbox

Wonderful account of Byron, Keats and Shelley and the women who formed part of their romantic and tragic circle. I had a general idea of some of the story but learnt so much; all the characters are so vivid, their personalities brought out in conversation; in occasional monologues. Opening with t...

from bolero

Historical fiction of Byron, Keats and Shelley