George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

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 .

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.

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...

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 .

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 .

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...

The poem represented the dead monarch as vindicated by the divine power after his death. It referred to Byron , without naming him, as the leader of those devilish, subversive writers whose works breathe the...

The epigraph to the volume is from Moore 's Loves of the Angels. AT was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans , but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...

This volume includes Petrarchan sonnets, landscape description in blank verse, quatrain lyrics, personal poems, ballads, patriotic odes, a prose narrative, prologues, epilogues, and a poem on the death of Byron . EC 's strengths are...

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...

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville