Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | During her time pursuing her social life alone in London as a widow, she made the acquaintance of Byron
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry
's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | In GenoaMarguerite Blessington
formed a friendship with Lord Byron
; her conversations with him over nine weeks became the basis of her most popular book. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 68 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Harriette Wilson | She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham
and with Byron
. Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro- |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | All this provides background for a story about EH
's behaviour later the same year. John Polidori
related that on Byron
's first visit to Mme de Staël
's chateau at Coppet in Switzerland... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | Literary tourists like Byron
visited her there. Dow, Gillian. “Places of our own: In search of literary treasure”. Mslexia, Vol. 39 , No. 2, pp. 8-11. 9 |
Friends, Associates | Grace Elliott | She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince
, according to the account in notes to her published journal. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press. 150-1 |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Regency England GS
met Coleridge
, Southey
, and Byron
. Jane Austen
, however, made a point of avoiding her. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 74, 76 |
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. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley
, their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont
, Byron
, and Dr John W. Polidori
. Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | TM
had a talent for beginning friendships under bizarre circumstances. Francis Jeffrey
's review of Moore's anti-American Epistles, Odes, and other Poems (1806) sparked a famous (short-lived) feud between the two men. Jeffrey's negative review... |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
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