George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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

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Birth Lesley Storm
It is not known whether she had siblings. She was distantly related to the poet Lord Byron .
Ravenhall, Chris. “Lesley Storms Three Goose Quills and a Knife: A Burns Play Rediscovered”. Studies in Scottish Literature, Vol.
32
, 2001, pp. 46-54.
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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.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Characters Mary Shelley
This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life.
Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Editor Vargo, Lisa, Broadview, 1997.
47
Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
Characters Harriet Lee
The volume opens with The Poet's Address, which excuses its disconnection from the original frame: Should you be good-naturedly disposed, you will not inquire minutely where the travellers were picked up by whom the...
Characters Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas calls her Caroline Lamb character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas 's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...
Cultural formation Frances Trollope
FT 's tolerance of her local vicar was tested, however, when the poet Byron decided to have his five-year-old, illegitimate daughter Allegra —born to Claire Clairmont —buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill, near which he had spent time...
Cultural formation Lady Caroline Lamb
As an adult, she became increasingly promiscuous. Her conduct in her affair with Byron (who was at first dazzled by and obsessed with her, later implacably hostile in principle, though capable of softening when he...
death Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan her portrait of Byron and some of his letters.
Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary...
death Germaine de Staël
Byron , who was at work on the fourth canto of Childe Harold, attached a note to stanza 54 which said: CORINNA is no more. Staël, he wrote, had ceased to be a woman—she...
Education Harriette Wilson
While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb set out to get her reading Milton , Shakespeare , Byron , theRambler, Virgil
Education Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
12-13
Her father did not allow novels in...
Education Elizabeth Grant
EG refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard...
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...
Education Germaine Greer
After some years living as a bohemian in Sydney, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney for an MA in English. Her thesis subject was The Development of Byron 's Satiric Mode, and she...
Education Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

Timeline

1806: The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues...

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1806

The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin , were exhibited for the first time in England.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
131-2

1806: The young Lord Byron privately printed his...

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1806

The young Lord Byron privately printed his first book, Fugitive Pieces, which was immediately suppressed.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

By September 1807: Byron published his second verse collection,...

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By September 1807

Byron published his second verse collection, Hours of Idleness, a year after the first was suppressed.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 12 (1808): 47-53
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

March 1809: Byron published an anonymous satirical attack...

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March 1809

Byron published an anonymous satirical attack on the magazine reviewers: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3rd ser. 16 (1809): 336
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

10 March 1812 to September 1818: Byron published the first two cantos of his...

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10 March 1812 to September 1818

Byron published the first two cantos of his narrative-reflective poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: ix, xiii, xv
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
10 March 2010

10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...

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10 October 1812

The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , was opened with a special address by Lord Byron .
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
65, 67
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
123, 133
Wyndham, Henry Saxe. The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre From 1732 to 1897. Chatto and Windus, 1906, 2 vols.
359

By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...

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By July 1813

Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.
21 (1813): 299-309
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
150-1

29 November 1813: Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the...

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29 November 1813

Byron published The Bride of Abydos; the Critical Review printed its notice the following month.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 4 (1813): 653-8
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...

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1 February 1814

Byron published his oriental narrative poem The Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 5 (1814): 144-55, 222
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 February 2008

6 August 1814: Byron published Lara, the third of three...

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6 August 1814

Byron published Lara, the third of three narrative poems in little more than a year which served to establish the image of the Byronic hero.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
4th ser. 6 (1814): 203, 214
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 August 2008

10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...

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10 April 1815

The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
Sample, Ian. “Scientists find lost civilisation”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Mar. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Awfully Present”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 5 Feb. 2015, pp. 27-8.
27

By July 1815: Byron published Hebrew Melodies....

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By July 1815

Byron published Hebrew Melodies.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2 (1815): 111
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...

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1816

Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The Story of Rimini.
Brewer, Luther A. My Leigh Hunt Library: The First Editions. B. Franklin, 1970.
72-5

June 1817: Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem,...

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June 1817

Byron published Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, written between summer 1816 and April 1817: his first attempt at dramatic form, and last incarnation of the Byronic hero.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xiv-xv

By February 1818: Byron published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative...

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By February 1818

Byron published Beppo, a light-hearted narrative poem in stanzas.
Santucho, Oscar José, and Clement Tyson, Jr Goode. George Gordon, Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Secondary Materials in English, 1807-1973. Scarecrow Press, 1977.
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Texts

Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982, 12 vols.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. John Murray; William Blackwood; John Cumming.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, http://UofARutherford.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Moore, Thomas, John Murray, 1830, 2 vols.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Peter Cochran’s Website”. Byron’s early poems of Nottinghamshire and London, edited by Peter Cochran and Peter Cochran.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, W. Scott, 1886, http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, Walter Scott, 1886, 2 vols.
Fanshawe, Catherine, and George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron. “The Ænigma”. Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron, Effingham Wilson, 1818.