treaclemoon

Byron's scandalous doings are retold with verve, from the disaster of his marriage to Annabella Milbanke (the rot set in on their honeymoon, which Byron thereafter referred to as his "treaclemoon") to the infamous summer he spent in Switzerland with the Shelleys and Claire, in the course of which Mary first conceived

Culture | guardian.co.uk Rachel Cooke 2010

Byron's scandalous doings are retold with verve, from the disaster of his marriage to Annabella Milbanke (the rot set in on their honeymoon, which Byron thereafter referred to as his "treaclemoon") to the infamous summer he spent in Switzerland with the Shelleys and Claire, in the course of which Mary first conceived Frankenstein (one local hotelier did a brisk trade in sailing trips on Lake Geneva, during which appalled English tourists inspected the washing drying outside Byron's villa for evidence of female inhabitants).

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010