George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey.
274
Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...
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 Mary Russell Mitford
MRM began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron had just published The Two Foscari.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
Quarterly 35 (1927): 317
In late 1822...
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington appeared in volume form.
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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Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press.
149
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.
231
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
She quoted Byron and the Greek historian Thucydides on her title-page, and dedicated the poem to the Spirit of 'The Times'—that is, the newspaper. A letter to the editor of the Times...
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 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.
32, 36
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL kept a diary, in which she recorded, for instance, her famous first impression of Byron . Late in her life she planned to publish this diary, and to consult Sydney Morgan about the best...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
Miss Byron, author of the English-woman (who was much later labelled as MGB ), published a second novel, Hours of Affluence, and Days of Indigence.
The title might bear some allusion to Byron 's...
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 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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15 July 1819: Byron began to publish in instalments (opening...

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15 July 1819

Byron began to publish in instalments (opening with cantos one and two) his satiricalmock-epicpoemDon Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.

December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...

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December 1821

Byron published his verse dramaCain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.

27 January 1822: The National Congress of Epidaurus declared...

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27 January 1822

The National Congress of Epidaurus declared Greek independence from Turkey; in practice, however, this was not fully achieved until 1829.

12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...

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12 August 1822

The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh , killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington 's victories and of repressive policies at home.

October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...

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October 1822

Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt briefly published at Pisa.

1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...

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1825

Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

23 April 1826: In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi...

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23 April 1826

In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi in Greece fell to the Ottomans after a year of siege.

1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...

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1866

The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.

1870: The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some...

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1870

The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some women maintained modesty at the dinner table by secretly practising what is now termed binge eating, a component of bulimia nervosa.

6 October 1927: Warner Brothers released the first film with...

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6 October 1927

Warner Brothers released the first film with a spoken dialogue soundtrack, or talkie, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson .

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

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December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .

1979: Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply...

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1979

Anna Adams published her verseletterA Reply to Intercepted Mail (A Verse-Letter to W. H. Auden ) in the Peterloo Poets series.

13 April 1993: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, a play whose action...

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13 April 1993

Tom Stoppard 's Arcadia, a play whose action is divided between the early nineteenth century and the present day, opened (after previews) at the National Theatre in London.

By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...

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By 11 May 2002

John Murray , publishers of Austen and Byron among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith .

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