George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

The title-page quotes Pope , who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron (The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor (The Squire's...

Lady Caroline's (here Kitty Ashe's) obsession, Byron , is thinly disguised as the poet Geoffrey Cliffe. Despite it inspiration in this nearly one-hundred-old relationship, the novel's setting is contemporary and Kitty is a fast cigarette-smoking...

In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV , in which various Muses compete for possession of her. In 1821 Alfred Beauchamp , editor of the Magazine, praised...

KT established in her novel She Walks in Beauty (whose title comes from a lyric by Byron ) a plot line she would repeatedly use in later novels.

ST 's maternal aunt Mary married Ralph, second Earl of Lovelace , who was a grandson of the poet Byron and son of Augusta Ada Byron , later Countess of Lovelace (mathematician and author of...

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 .

FT 's tolerance of her local vicar was tested, however, when the poet Byron decided to have his five-year-old, illegitimate daughter Allegra —born to Claire Clairmont —buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill, near which he had spent time...

MT issued, through her usual Southampton printer, another pamphlet, Lines on Reading the last Canto of [Byron 's] Childe Harold.

The University of Texas at Austin holds the only known copy. (MT also reproved Byron in verse for his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.)

She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , as well as Burns ,...

The epigraph to the volume is from Moore 's Loves of the Angels. AT was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans , but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...

With The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harolde in Prose, Elizabeth Thomas entered the controversy swirling around Byron , again calling herself Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle and mentioning a long list of previous works.

With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb .

She wrote this novel, she said, because she admired Byron 's poem Childe Harold, but thought it wanted a finish. (This was no wonder, since only the first two cantos had so far...

Thomas calls her Caroline Lamb character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas 's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...