George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...

In the title poem a recluse offers shelter in his cave to a lady who gives birth and then dies, leaving her child to be educated only by nature. The protagonist of The Dying Maniac...

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...

This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...

The poem describes the pilgrimage abroad in which the child-author had followed in the footsteps of her dead mountaineer brother. His death, however, does not loom large in the poem, which combines musing with...

Influenced by Eliot 's Four Quartets, Clear Light of Day deals with time as destroyer and preserver, and with what the bondage of time does to people. It is structured as a four...

It opens with England, with all thy faults I love thee still!—a quotation not from Byron 's Beppo, which lay still two years in the future, but from Cowper 's The Task (whence...

Since CD was said to have been ill for a long time before she died, some particular illness may have caused Byron to suppose her dead in 1816.

Byron disparaged what he judged to be Rosa's absurd and incomprehensible prose in masquerade in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, published in March 1809, linking her to the Della Cruscans . She...

Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning...

Critic Kathleen McCormack suggests that CC 's poems were often influenced by her early years of hardship. For example, she argues that Spring is Coming aptly points out how winter exacerbates hunger and other suffering...

The title-page quotes Byron on the power of Fate. The heroine is not always pretty, nor is she always Miss Neville. The book opens in the voice of eleven-year-old Nora O'Neill, known as Miggs, generally...

MC published, with her name and a quotation from Byron , A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly.

Thomas Mulock was a poet, essayist, and pamphleteer who published throughout his life. As a young man he wrote articles for the Sun which impressed William Jerdan , and he soon also began producing pamphlets...

Freed as a disabled woman from the expectations of conventional femininity, Olive leads an independent life and struggles to become a successful painter, strengthened by her reading of Shelley and Byron . But she foregoes...