Tina wrote:She "poisoned " his life in England and made him" an enemy of the English".
But it's only my oppinion...
Byron was his own worst enemy. I would say his relationship with his half-sister Augusta was the casue of his self-imposed exile and his revilement by some of the British people.
There's no getting away from the fact that he did treat Annabella [his wife] very badly indeed but her actions were not entirelay blameless either in teh marriage. As a rational, highly intelligent woman she should have known better than to marry someone like Byron, so antipathetic to her nature and condition.
Opposites sometimes do attract of course but in this case they were perhaps too different to ever have been compatible.
She was perhaps dazzeled by his appraent wickedness and wished to "save" him from himself with her Christian piety.
It's interesting that he became detested by the Upper classes [hypocritically no doubt] yet was still adored by the middle and working classes.
When he died it was the ordinary people who came to pay their respects as his funeral cortege passed by.
His fellow aristocrats shunned him in death as they had done so in life.
"Oh what a misery it is to have an intellect in splints".