At regular intervals the dramatic lives of Shelley and Byron and their literary circle have attracted new biographical interest. Lately, the focus has tended to be on the female members of the circle such as in Miranda Seymour’s Mary Shelley (2000) and Janet Todd’s Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle (2007). As a new addition to this field, Daisy Hay, has produced an inspiring composite work entitled Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (2010), that embraces both men and women. The book is an important and refreshing contribution to an established area of scholarship, and broadens the spectrum of study by including several names that are not usually mentioned in connection to the centre of the Shelley-Byron affiliation.