author
Edward John Trelawny
1792–1881
A vivid man of action who moved through the world of the Romantic poets, he turned his own restless life into books full of sea travel, rebellion, and legend. He is best remembered for his close ties to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, and for the dramatic memoirs that helped shape how later readers imagined them.
3 Audiobooks
Un Cadet de Famille, v. 1/3
by Edward John Trelawny
Un Cadet de Famille, v. 3/3
by Edward John Trelawny
Un Cadet de Famille, v. 2/3
by Edward John Trelawny
About the author
Born in London in 1792, Edward John Trelawny became known as an English author, adventurer, and memoirist. Reference works consistently describe him as a friend and later chronicler of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, two of the defining poets of the Romantic age.
His life had the kind of sweep that seems half novel, half history. He spent time at sea when young, later took part in the Greek struggle for independence, and drew heavily on his own experiences in his writing. Among the works most closely associated with him are Adventures of a Younger Son and Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author.
Trelawny died in 1881, but his reputation lasted because he stood so close to famous lives at dramatic moments and wrote about them with unusual color and force. For readers drawn to literary history, he remains an especially lively witness to the Romantic era.