George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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

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Education Celia Moss
Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...
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 ...
Education Marion Moss
Little is known is about MM 's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky , her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron 's Childe...
Education Charlotte Guest
Lady Charlotte received a standard home education. She soon found that she loved serious learning and set out to pursue it. Studying on her own, she discovered and devoured Chaucer (from whom as an old...
Education John Ruskin
Taught at home until the age of fourteen by his parents and private tutors, JR developed his drawing, and received an education that encouraged a love of Romantic Literature (including Byron , Wordsworth , and...
Education Pauline Johnson
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...
Education Elizabeth Ham
EH continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron 's Childe Harold.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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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...
Education Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Education Marie Corelli
Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...
Education Christina Rossetti
Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother , in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their...
Education Fanny Kemble
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,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt, 1879.
81
though she condemned the writings of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Education George Eliot
Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...
Education Jean Rhys
At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
Education Anna Swanwick
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...

Timeline

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 satirical mock-epic poem Don Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
354
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
186-7

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

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December 1821

Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.
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.
Simpson, Michael. “Byrons Cain at the Barbican Centre, London (29th November 1995 to 7th March 1996)”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, No. 1, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1997, pp. 41-6.
41

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.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
116
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1282

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.
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: xvii
Pinto gives the date as October...

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.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96

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.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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, 11 Jan. 2013, 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.
Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies. Oxford University Press, 1987.
17, 20, 153

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 .
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

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 .
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
212-13

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

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1979

Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply to Intercepted Mail (A Verse-Letter to W. H. Auden ) in the Peterloo Poets series.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
64610 (5 April 1993): 28

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 .
Reynolds, Nigel. Last chapter as oldest publisher is bought out,, 11 May 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/11/nmurr11.xml.

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