Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron

HBS defended the role taken by Lady Byron in her marriage to the poet , which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.

HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a...

She was received by Dickens , Lady Byron , Anna Jameson , the Lord Mayor of London, and various members of the nobility. The working-class Scots poet Janet Hamilton 's tribute to...

She also published articles in the Atlantic Monthly between 1857 and 1879. She wrote of slavery and emancipation, and of domestic topics. Her Sojourner Truth . The Libyan Sybil appeared in April 1963, and The...

In June 1840, MR attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson , Amelia Opie , and Lady Byron . She was the only Scotswoman present.MR was shocked...

GP had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot , Lady Caroline Lamb , Augusta Leigh , Lady Melbourne , Annabella Milbanke , Claire Clairmont , and the actresses Susan Boyce and Mrs Spencer...

In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles . One of her closest non-literary friends was Mary Merryweather , a Quaker nurse who shared BRP 's interest in promoting standards of...

In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville

For nearly six years she was an invalid, though she was able to work very productively for the first few years and remained well enough to receive visitors. She was helped financially by two female...

She had made up her mind to accept a mooted pension in 1832, but it never materialised and she came to feel that her independence of mind was too precious to accept such an obligation....

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

Her mother then fell ill; Caroline was persuaded that she was to blame and in early September, her parents and husband bore her off to Bessborough House in Kilkenny, Ireland. Her exchange of...

The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy...

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...