George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron

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Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron . She based her work on...
Textual Production George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
CN published The Undying One, and Other Poems, with epigraphs taken from Byron (again, this time from Childe Harold) and La Fontaine .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
137 (1830): 353
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS helped Edward John Trelawny by editing his autobiographical Adventures of a Younger Son, 1831: among other things she added epigraphs from both Byron and Percy Shelley , and supplied his title. She also...
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...
Textual Production Margaret Croker
MC published, with her name and a quotation from Byron , A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly.
Romilly, a reforming lawyer, killed himself after his wife's death.
Croker, Margaret. A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly. John Souter.
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Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
She had begun writing the title poem (pages 3-77 when printed) while at boarding school. She dedicated the volume to Lord Holland and quoted Byron on the title page.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Textual Production Felicia Skene
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.
The title apparently alludes...
Textual Production Melesina Trench
The University of Texas at Austin holds the only known copy. (MT also reproved Byron in verse for his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.)
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
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Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
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...
Textual Production Catherine Gore
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...
Textual Production Jane Loudon
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.
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
Textual Production Frances Trollope
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 .
Hall, N. John. Salmagundi: Byron, Allegra, and the Trollope Family. Beta Phi Mu.
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