Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
George Gordon sixth Baron Byron
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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron
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Textual Production | Sarah Green | This too was in three volumes from A. K. Newman
of the former Minerva Press
. Its title-page quotes Byron
. |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | The same year as MB
's editions of Byron
, her biography Madame Roland appeared: it was her second contribution to the Eminent Women Series. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Thomas | 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. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 421 |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The manuscript of this play subsequently went missing. There were stories that Byron
had plagiarised his highly successful Kruitzner adaptation, Werner, from it. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. 331n8 |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre
, later wrote that she owned a copy of the Riddle on the Letter H in Fanshawe's handwriting dating from around 1806, before anyone had heard of Byron
. Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908. 21 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Whipple | The country house which is the centre and almost the leading character of this novel was called in DW
's earliest working drafts The Manor and later Saunby (still used in the novel as published)... |
Textual Production | Caroline Norton | CN
published The Undying One, and Other Poems, with epigraphs taken from Byron
(again, this time from Childe Harold) and La Fontaine
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 137 (1830): 353 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Bowles | When Lady Gertrude leaves for the London season, Fanny's parents note a change in their daughter. Dame Fairfield complains that Fanny goes moping and peaking about, and don't set to nothin' with a good heart... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Camilla Crosland | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs' opening moves smoothly from the famous shock of the first sentence into a tone of judicious complexity: I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Callcott | After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC
) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray
. She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This book describes the emotions and the atmosphere of Italy, rather than the practical details of travel. Memoirs of Byron
play an important part, without repeating material used in Conversations of Lord Byron with... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. qtd. in Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
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