In an effort to prove the spirit of Byron alive and well, Marcia Farquhar has amassed a collection of testimonials and confessionals from the Byrons in her life, and the women who have loved them. Characteristically confusing fact with fiction and past with present, Farquhar will lead a tour of the house and grounds, mixing as she goes the histories of Newstead Abbey with her gathered tales of top-drawer debauchery. This may include some forced incidents of transferrence between the spirit and physical worlds.

In ‘That Beautiful Pale Face Is My Fate (For Lord Byron)’,