Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley
had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | In a rare gesture of interest in Byron
—the father she had never met—AAB
, Countess of Lovelace, visited his home, Newstead Abbey. Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan. 321 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's father, the poet Lord Byron
, is well known for his transgressive sexual behaviour of various kinds. His marriage to Lady Byron was shortlived: she left him twelve months after their wedding citing (and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Some, including Lady Byron
, speculated that Medora was the child of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Byron Leigh
. AAB
had already, in 1828, broken with Augusta over the issue of publishing Byron's letters... |
Education | Fanny Kemble | Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training, Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 81 |
Education | Celia Moss | Little is known of CM
's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky
(who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father... |
Education | Marion Moss | Little is known is about MM
's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky
, her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron
's Childe... |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Education | Harriette Wilson | While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil |
Education | Elinor Glyn | |
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 | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
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... |
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