George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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.

The title-page bears a couplet from Byron 's Don Juan: 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print, / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

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...

In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .

DW set up her own Penns in the Rocks Press and in conjunction with publishers William Collins produced volumes of Byron and Shelley each illustrated in black-and-white and colour.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...