Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Augusta Ada Byron | The most famous literary response to Ada was penned by her father, Lord Byron
, in the opening lines to the Third Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Is thy face like thy mother's, my... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | Miss Byron, author of the English-woman (who was much later labelled as MGB
), published a second novel, Hours of Affluence, and Days of Indigence. The title might bear some allusion to Byron
's... |
names | Medora Gordon Byron | 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... |
Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | It was published by Minerva
in three volumes, with mention of the two previous novels published as a Modern Antique, and an &c. suggesting a larger output. The title-page bears an aphorism, Love is... |
Birth | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
, the only legitimate child of the poet Byron
and later a remarkable mathematician, was born at 13 Piccadilly Terrace, London. |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Callcott | MC
's title-page quotes Byron
and her preface declares her subject to be the independence struggle of the patriots of the New World. Callcott, Maria. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. prelims |
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
,... |
Literary responses | Maria Callcott | Her adult poetry (still in manuscript) was regarded by her editor of 1975 as conventional, sapless, and over-influenced by the early Byron
. Lawrence, C. E., and Maria Callcott. “Lady Callcott and Her Book”. Little Arthur’s History of England, Century Edition, J. Murray, p. xiii - xx. xvii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe
and Pierre Cardenal
, and of Chateaubriand
's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Georgiana Chatterton | She headed her chapters with quotations which draw on European as well as English literature: Petrarch
, Byron
, Germaine de Staël
. In its early stages the book may read like a courtship novel... |
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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