George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

MB wrote occasional verse from her youth. She and Byron exchanged poems at Genoa in May 1823.

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...

At the date of the first Miss Byron novel, Elizabeth Strutt was publishing as Mrs Byron while the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron , had had only a single juvenile collection reviewed. While the name...

TM later established himself as a biographer with a string of books: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), an edition of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), and...

Politically, CF was a conservative. She made fun of committed radicals like Byron or William Cobbett who demanded reform of the British constitution. She put forward more than once, with seriousness underlying her humour, the...

He supported the Whig Party . These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron , an ardent Whig.

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry. Some of her satirical poems were published. She wrote her first novel as a personal testament and retaliation after...

Marguerite Blessington wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account...

MT issued, through her usual Southampton printer, another pamphlet, Lines on Reading the last Canto of [Byron 's] Childe Harold.

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...

In her memoirs MCC wrote that all my experience of publishers has been most agreeable. Contrary to the prejudiced opinion sometimes expressed, that authors and publishers are often antagonistic in their transactions, I have invariably...

HW 's actual surviving letters to Byron were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935. Those to Brougham (written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...