Publications
Lord Byron's Jackal: The Life of Edward John Trelawny, by David Crane, published 6 July 1998 (400 pp., HarperCollins, ISBN-10: 0002556316 & ISBN-13: 9780002556316) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:David Crane seeks to answer Joseph Severn's famous question and investigates the life and phenomenon of Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) - writer, adventurer, romantic and friend to Shelley and Byron - who died at Sompting, aged 88. Trelawny's is a story inextricably linked with Byron, and with the Greek War of Independence - a war which provided both Romantic Europe and Edward Trelawny with their most extravagant challenge.
There has been no general biography of Trelawny for nearly twenty years, no history of the philhellene role in the Greek war of Independence for even longer.
Reminiscent of Patrick French's Younghusband, Lord Byron's Jackal is not a life of Trelawny in the conventional sense. It is biography and travel writing of the highest calibre; it is an evocation of landscape and an exploration of the ways we can see and recover the past.
There has been no general biography of Trelawny for nearly twenty years, no history of the philhellene role in the Greek war of Independence for even longer.
Reminiscent of Patrick French's Younghusband, Lord Byron's Jackal is not a life of Trelawny in the conventional sense. It is biography and travel writing of the highest calibre; it is an evocation of landscape and an exploration of the ways we can see and recover the past.