All those old tales of mystery, like 'The Man with the Iron Mask,' and stories of noblemen spirited away to Siberia, of men locked for many years in dungeons, like the 'Prisoner of Chillon,' which fired the fancy and genius of byron and sent him to fight for the oppressed, used to fill my dreams.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
An admirer of byron, du Maurier repudiated as cruelly unfair the poet's line, "Now Barabbas was a publisher."
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Du Maurier, with his enthusiasm for byron, had to meet this attitude as best he could.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood