George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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...

After some years living as a bohemian in Sydney, Greer enrolled at the University of Sydney for an MA in English. Her thesis subject was The Development of Byron 's Satiric Mode, and she...

The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox 's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney , then Radcliffe , then Owenson , then Rosa Matilda

This too was in three volumes from A. K. Newman of the former Minerva Press . Its title-page quotes Byron .

EG refers to a number of texts that influenced her as a child. She learned to read by the age of three, taught by loving aunts, and remembered in particular Puss in Boots, Bluebeard...

During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with...

She quotes Byron on the title-page. As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...

As a girl Catherine Moody (later CG ) was called The Poetess by her friends. Two juvenile poems (one a final canto to Byron 's Childe Harold, the other entitled The Graves of the...

Writing beyond the ending of Childe Harold is indicative of the special place that Byron holds in relation to CG 's work. She often quotes his poetry in influential positions, and she plays variations on...

The title-page quotes Byron pronouncing shame to the land of the Gaul. A preface combats the general prejudice against a single volume by citing works of fiction which are short but widely admired...

Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

She said that some of the poems contained in this volume were written before the age of fifteen. She dedicated it to the memory of Lord Byron .

Miss Middleton's new Polish home is half-palace, half-cottage; her new pupil, Anulka Zielinska, is a precocious, delicate ten-year-old. Anulka's father is dead, her mother is a cadaverous invalid, and her sister Jadwiga is nine years...

The manuscript of this play subsequently went missing. There were stories that Byron had plagiarised his highly successful Kruitzner adaptation, Werner, from it.