George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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.

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

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...

The poem represented the dead monarch as vindicated by the divine power after his death. It referred to Byron , without naming him, as the leader of those devilish, subversive writers whose works breathe the...

Byron responded brilliantly in 1822 with The Vision of Judgment, which trounces the king and Southey with him.

Literary tourists like Byron visited her there.

In Regency England GS met Coleridge , Southey , and Byron . Jane Austen , however, made a point of avoiding her.

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...

Sarah Harriet Burney , like her famous sister, was troubled at GS 's unconventionality. She wrote that she yawned over De l'Allemagneand yet, here and there, was electrified by a flash of sublimity. Do...

It is not known whether she had siblings. She was distantly related to the poet Lord 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 '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. Her father did not allow novels in...

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...

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

Sydney Morgan's genius for social life, and for forging relations with famous and celebrated people, continued from youth to age. On her second visit to London she met the bluestocking hostess the Countess of Cork and Orrery