The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company.
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reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Friends, Associates
Cecil Frances Alexander
The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
.
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 602
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Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie
had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 1191
Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
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Amelia Beauclerc
The title-page quotes Byron
.
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Amelia Beauclerc
The title-page suggests foreboding by again quoting Byron
, Fair laughs the morn.
Intertextuality and Influence
Isabella Beeton
Notwithstanding the putative focus on management, the bulk of the 44-chapter book is taken up with discussion of food, from the chapters on Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen and Introduction to Cookery to the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Theodora Benson
While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll
, the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare
and Verlaine
, move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke
, and conclude...
Education
Mary Matilda Betham
More important than his teaching were her own efforts in a congenial atmosphere. The family would read aloud from poems and plays, providing their own appreciation and criticism. In her diary she wrote: In our...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Blamire
Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron
, and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child...
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Mathilde Blind
MB
edited, with introductions, Byron
's Letters and Journals and his Poetical Works (two volumes), issued in London by the publisher Walter Scott
.
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.
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Mathilde Blind
The same year as MB
's editions of Byron
, her biography Madame Roland appeared: it was her second contribution to the Eminent Women Series.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Intertextuality and Influence
Mathilde Blind
At this date MB
's favourite poets (Shelley
, Byron
, Tennyson
) were all male.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 poemChilde Harold's Pilgrimage.
10 October 1812: The fourth Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, was...
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.
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.
1 February 1814: Byron published his oriental narrative poem...
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1 February 1814
Byron
published his orientalnarrative poemThe Corsair, which was a huge and immediate success.
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.
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.
By July 1815: Byron published Hebrew Melodies....
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By July 1815
Byron
published Hebrew Melodies.
1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...
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1816
Leigh Hunt
published his narrative poemThe Story of Rimini.
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.
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.
Texts
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. John Murray; William Blackwood; John Cumming.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, http://UofARutherford.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Peter Cochran’s Website”. Byron’s early poems of Nottinghamshire and London, edited by Peter Cochran and Peter Cochran.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, W. Scott, 1886, http://Robarts - PR4381 A3B5 1886.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Editor Blind, Mathilde, Walter Scott, 1886.
Fanshawe, Catherine, and George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron. “The Ænigma”. Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron, Effingham Wilson, 1818.
