George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron . She based her work on...

MRM began her verse tragedy Foscari in 1821, after the rejection of Fiesco, and was horrified to discover that Byron had just published The Two Foscari. In late 1822...

It was published by Minerva in three volumes, with mention of the two previous novels published as a Modern Antique, and an &c. suggesting a larger output. The title-page bears an aphorism, Love is...

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...

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...

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.

In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself. Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...

CN published The Undying One, and Other Poems, with epigraphs taken from Byron (again, this time from Childe Harold) and La Fontaine .

MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817. She dedicated the printed...

HW had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron , for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...

She had begun writing the title poem (pages 3-77 when printed) while at boarding school. She dedicated the volume to Lord Holland and quoted Byron on the title page.

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 .

ME did some writing even after she moved to Sussex, but she dissipated her inadequate energy on competing projects: a play about Byron , a short study of John Clare , a few stories...