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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Jane Austen | But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney
—who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset
, sister of Charlotte Smith
, might be... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke
(whose daughter became Lady Byron
), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve
, William Sotheby
, William Harness |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Baillie | The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella)
, widow of the poet... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron
, and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child... |
Travel | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
travelled on the Continent with her mother, Lady Noel Byron
, and a small entourage of friends. Byron, Augusta Ada. Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers. Editor Toole, Betty A., Strawberry Press. 28 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron
, née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Jealous of the interest her daughter was showing in the man she had worked to demonize, Lady Noel Byron
was angered by Ada's visit to Newstead, and relations between the two deteriorated significantly after the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Her mother
survived till 1860. Unwillingly enmeshed in family scandals, and having already destroyed various papers, she burned more after Ada's death and embargoed her correspondence for thirty years. But while she was silent others... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Carpenter | This house was bought for her by Lady Byron
, who also arranged for Carpenter's close friend and fellow activist Frances Power Cobbe
to move into Red Lodge with her in November that year. Cobbe... |
Textual Production | Mary Carpenter | Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing
, he... |
Occupation | Mary Carpenter | She felt that boys and girls learned better separately, and that she might have more of an influence on the girls if she established a separate school for their own needs. Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. MacMillan and Co. 164 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | Lady Byron
was another of the Clives' acquaintances. Following a visit in 1843, CC
wrote: That is the woman that has been tossed about by such vehement passions, by contact with such a fiery nature... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | Seeking a purpose in life, she had met her lifelong friend Clementia or Mentia Taylor
and other social activists in London. The arrangement with Carpenter
was facilitated by her supporter Lady Byron
, who... |
Occupation | Frances Power Cobbe | She taught at the Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School
for girl-criminals, founded by Carpenter with the aid of Lady Byron
, and the Ragged Schools and Streetboys' Sunday School operated from a street called St... |
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