Dr. Kate Lister
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Maybe it doesn't have to be the way it's always been.
And there's challenges to religion and religious authority and the status quo.
And all of that is in the background.
Of course, Byron is ultimately a massively privileged person.
upper class man walking around talking about revolution but still this is the background
No, they weren't.
They absolutely were not.
His dad married his mum.
It's his second marriage.
His first marriage, she dies.
I think she dies.
It might be in childbirth or just shortly after.
The first marriage, they have a daughter together, Augusta.
She will come back to this story.
His second marriage to Catherine Byron's mum was pretty much exclusively for her money.
He'd spent everything.
He was horribly in debt.
So he marries her to get access to her fortune, promptly spends it and then runs up enormous debts again and then legs it.
And he does that really, really quickly.