George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron

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Wealth and Poverty Anne Marsh
Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father.
Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...
Violence Bessie Rayner Parkes
Not only had the occupying troops burned the furniture and staircases, defaced the pictures or shot them full of holes: out of the dungheaps covering the gardens were retrieved letters or scraps of letters from...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Caroline's (here Kitty Ashe's) obsession, Byron , is thinly disguised as the poet Geoffrey Cliffe. Despite it inspiration in this nearly one-hundred-old relationship, the novel's setting is contemporary and Kitty is a fast cigarette-smoking...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Cobbold
This volume includes Petrarchan sonnets, landscape description in blank verse, quatrain lyrics, personal poems, ballads, patriotic odes, a prose narrative, prologues, epilogues, and a poem on the death of Byron . EC 's strengths are...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Martineau
Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Caroline Bowles
When Lady Gertrude leaves for the London season, Fanny's parents note a change in their daughter. Dame Fairfield complains that Fanny goes moping and peaking about, and don't set to nothin' with a good heart...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Robert Southey
The poem represented the dead monarch as vindicated by the divine power after his death. It referred to Byron , without naming him, as the leader of those devilish, subversive writers whose works breathe the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Annie Tinsley
The epigraph to the volume is from Moore 's Loves of the Angels. AT was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans , but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey.
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Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Camilla Crosland
Critic Kathleen McCormack suggests that CC 's poems were often influenced by her early years of hardship. For example, she argues that Spring is Coming aptly points out how winter exacerbates hunger and other suffering...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Callcott
After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC ) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray . She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge ,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
This book describes the emotions and the atmosphere of Italy, rather than the practical details of travel. Memoirs of Byron play an important part, without repeating material used in Conversations of Lord Byron with...

Timeline

1806: The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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10 March 1812 to September 1818

Byron published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poemChilde Harold's Pilgrimage.

10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...

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10 October 1812

The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , was opened with a special address by Lord Byron .

By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...

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By July 1813

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...

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29 November 1813

Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the Critical Review printed its notice the following month.

1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...

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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...

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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,...

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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....

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By July 1815

Byron published Hebrew Melodies.

1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...

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1816

Leigh Hunt published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.

June 1817: Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem,...

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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...

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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.
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.
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.