Today's writer: George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron had an affair with his half-sister, Augusta, when he lived in the Old Town in Hastings. He got so emotional about it or his life in general that he hurled an inkwell full of ink out of the house. Tourists still look for a splodge of ink on the ground at the end of Tackleway/top of Old Humphrey Avenue where the since-demolished house was. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Byron_1824.jpg/250px-Byron_1824.jpg


Tomorrow: the artist JMW Turner and Hastings