George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

LCL anonymously published A New Canto to satirize Byron 's Don Juan (of which only two cantos were so far in print).

From the date of Byron's death, LCL lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin , whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an...

LCL published another satire on Byron 's writing: Gordon, A Tale, A Poetical Review of Don Juan, in two cantos.

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry. Some of her satirical poems were published. She wrote her first novel as a personal testament and retaliation after...

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...

Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan was sexual and...

LEL's work was more varied, particularly in the miscellaneous poetry attached to such collections prefaced by longer poems, than has been recognized. Although much of her poetry does invoke sentiment, there is also a strongly...

RK 's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron 's much-quoted...

Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training, though she condemned the writings of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis

Of the hundred lyrics and sonnets, several cover topics of romance: My soul grows faint, my veins run liquid flame, / And my bewildered spirit seems to swim / In eddying whirls of passion, dizzily...

Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick , EJ 's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys...

PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...