George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

As a girl Catherine Moody (later CG ) was called The Poetess by her friends. Two juvenile poems (one a final canto to Byron 's Childe Harold, the other entitled The Graves of the...

After five years living in Greece, FS published her first work, a collection of poems entitled The Isles of Greece, and Other Poems as Felicia Mary Frances Skene.

In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself. Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...

FT wrote her first publicly circulated poem, Lines Written on the Burial of the Daughter of a Celebrated Author in memory of Lord Byron 's illegitimate daughter Allegra .

The title-page bears a couplet from Byron 's Don Juan: 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print, / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .

LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...

ME did some writing even after she moved to Sussex, but she dissipated her inadequate energy on competing projects: a play about Byron , a short study of John Clare , a few stories...

The title-page quotes Byron .

KT established in her novel She Walks in Beauty (whose title comes from a lyric by Byron ) a plot line she would repeatedly use in later novels.

The letter that CF wrote about her first meeting with Germaine de Staël (also, apparently, her first meeting with Byron ) concentrates firmly on de Staël: Eloquence is a great word, but not too big...

HW had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron , for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...

She quotes L. E. L. on her title page, and dedicates her work (these early efforts of my timid Muse) to Princess Augusta Sophia . A preface by an unnamed male friend...

HBS defended the role taken by Lady Byron in her marriage to the poet , which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.