Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816 by Elma Dangerfield.
 
This vivid account of the famous "passionate" summer of 1816, when Lord Byron and Shelley were living with their mistresses Claire Clairmont and Mary Woolstonecraft on the shores of Lake Geneva, is illustrated by many contemporary prints of the picturesque lakeside villages and châteaux, of the Mont Blanc region and the Bernese Oberland.
 
Stendhal wrote of the "extraordinary congregation of European opinions" that characterised Geneva society in that unique period. The leading literary personalities of France, Switzerland and Italy, exiles and emigrés, English aristocrats on the Grand Tour - all are brought to life in Elma Dangerfield's description, based on the letters and journals of Byron and Shelley and others in their circle.
 
Above all, through this study of a cultural era in microcosm, she provides an illuminating re-creation of the lives of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement at a crucial point in their development.