It is not known whether she had siblings. She was distantly related to the poet Lord Byron
.
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Birth
Augusta Ada Byron
AAB
, the only legitimate child of the poet Byron
and later a remarkable mathematician, was born at 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Characters
Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas
calls her Caroline Lamb
character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas
's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...
Characters
Mary Shelley
This novel has an epigraph from John Ford
's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life.
Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
Characters
Harriet Lee
The volume opens with The Poet's Address, which excuses its disconnection from the original frame: Should you be good-naturedly disposed, you will not inquire minutely where the travellers were picked up by whom the...
Cultural formation
Lady Caroline Lamb
As an adult, she became increasingly promiscuous. Her conduct in her affair with Byron
(who was at first dazzled by and obsessed with her, later implacably hostile in principle, though capable of softening when he...
Cultural formation
Frances Trollope
FT
's tolerance of her local vicar was tested, however, when the poet Byron
decided to have his five-year-old, illegitimate daughter Allegra
—born to Claire Clairmont
—buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill, near which he had spent time...
death
Germaine de Staël
Byron
, who was at work on the fourth canto of Childe Harold, attached a note to stanza 54 which said: CORINNA is no more. Staël, he wrote, had ceased to be a woman—she...
death
Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL
died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan
her portrait of Byron
and some of his letters.
Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary...
Education
Elinor Glyn
Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys
's diary, Cervantes
' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott
, Agnes
Education
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...
Education
Jean Rhys
At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
Education
Elizabeth Grant
EG
refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard...
Education
Lydia Maria Child
At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather...
Education
Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS
's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
12-13
Her father did not allow novels in...
Timeline
1806
The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin
, were exhibited for the first time in England.
1806
The young Lord Byron
privately printed his first book, Fugitive Pieces, which was immediately suppressed.
By September 1807
Byron
published his second verse collection, Hours of Idleness, a year after the first was suppressed.
March 1809
Byron
published an anonymous satirical attack on the magazine reviewers: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
10 March 1812 to September 1818
Byron
published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poemChilde Harold's Pilgrimage.
Byron
published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
29 November 1813
Byron
published The Bride of Abydos; the Critical Review printed its notice the following month.
1 February 1814
Byron
published his orientalnarrative poemThe Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
6 August 1814
Byron
published Lara, the third of three narrative poems in little more than a year which served to establish the image of the Byronic hero.
10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
By July 1815
Byron
published Hebrew Melodies.
1816
Leigh Hunt
published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.
June 1817
Byron
published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, written between summer 1816 and April 1817: his first attempt at dramatic form, and last incarnation of the Byronic hero.
By February 1818
Byron
published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative poem in stanzas.
Texts
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. John Murray; William Blackwood; John Cumming.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, 1958. http://UofARutherford, http://UofARutherford.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Peter Cochran’s Website”. Byron’s early poems of Nottinghamshire and London, edited by Peter Cochran and Peter Cochran.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, W. Scott, 1886. http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886, http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, Walter Scott, 1886.
Fanshawe, Catherine, and George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron. “The Ænigma”. Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron, Effingham Wilson, 1818.