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Augusta Byron Leigh
Standard Name: Leigh, Augusta Byron
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death | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister
wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | Byron's elder half-sister, Augusta
(child of his father's first marriage, and married in 1807 to a Colonel Leigh), became at the very least her brother's closest woman friend and, in the opinion of his biographer... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | Apart from Byron's rumoured sexual relation with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh
, the most notorious among his many affairs were those with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Claire Clairmont
, and Teresa Guiccioli
. Lamb's remarkable... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry
's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to... |
Textual Production | George Paston | 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... |
Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia
, daughter of George III
(who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria
's daughters in 1982. In 1981... |
Textual Production | Edna O'Brien | 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
. |
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