Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
Germaine Greer
After some years living as a bohemian in Sydney, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney
for an MA in English. Her thesis subject was The Development of Byron
's Satiric Mode, and she...
Education
Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends
' meetings going over passages from Byron
, Southey
, Moore
...
Timeline
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
131-2
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...
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1 February 1814
Byron
published his oriental narrative poem The Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 144-55, 222
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 February 2008
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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.
Sample, Ian. “Scientists find lost civilisation”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Mar. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Awfully Present”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 5 Feb. 2015, pp. 27-8.
27
By July 1815: Byron published Hebrew Melodies....
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By July 1815
Byron
published Hebrew Melodies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...
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1816
Leigh Hunt
published his narrative poem The Story of Rimini.
Brewer, Luther A. My Leigh Hunt Library: The First Editions. B. Franklin, 1970.
72-5
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.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xiv-xv
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.
Santucho, Oscar José, and Clement Tyson, Jr Goode. George Gordon, Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Secondary Materials in English, 1807-1973. Scarecrow Press, 1977.
188
Texts
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982, 12 vols.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. John Murray; William Blackwood; John Cumming.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, http://UofARutherford.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Moore, Thomas, John Murray, 1830, 2 vols.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Peter Cochran’s Website”. Byron’s early poems of Nottinghamshire and London, edited by Peter Cochran and Peter Cochran.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, W. Scott, 1886, http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, Walter Scott, 1886, 2 vols.
Fanshawe, Catherine, and George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron. “The Ænigma”. Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron, Effingham Wilson, 1818.