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Education | Marion Moss | Little is known is about MM
's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky
, her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron
's Childe... |
Education | George Eliot | Her devotion to John Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More
's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce
. By late 1838, however... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
, on impulse, ran away from the house of her parents-in-law and pawned a ring, intending to flee abroad. But she sent farewell notes, which enabled Byron
to track her and deliver her to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | In order to get hold of a portrait of Byron
which was held in the office of his publisher John Murray
, LCL
forged a note with his signature—at a time when forgery was a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | After almost a year's separation, Byron
and LCL
had a meeting brokered by Lady Melbourne
and Lady Bessborough
with the idea of convincing Caroline that the affair was over. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 148-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Percy Shelley
had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | In one more belated public linking of herself with Byron
, LCL
appeared at Almack's in London dressed as his fictional Don Juan and attended by devils. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 299 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc
, was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo
, and the author of a life of Byron
(for which Stendhal
supplied... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | Frances's eldest brother, John Polidori
, was briefly Byron
's physician, and also an author (of The Vampyre, 1819). He committed suicide as a result of gambling debts a decade before CR
was born. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 15 British Library Catalogue. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | In a rare gesture of interest in Byron
—the father she had never met—AAB
, Countess of Lovelace, visited his home, Newstead Abbey. Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 321 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | HW
propositioned Byron
by letter (have you any objection to introduce yourself to a very impertinent young woman . . . ?) but he turned her offer down. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 127 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's father, the poet Lord Byron
, is well known for his transgressive sexual behaviour of various kinds. His marriage to Lady Byron was shortlived: she left him twelve months after their wedding citing (and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Some, including Lady Byron
, speculated that Medora was the child of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Byron Leigh
. AAB
had already, in 1828, broken with Augusta over the issue of publishing Byron's letters... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's maternal aunt Mary married Ralph, second Earl of Lovelace
, who was a grandson of the poet Byron
and son of Augusta Ada Byron
, later Countess of Lovelace (mathematician and author of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
fell in love with Byron
, she said, after reading his Childe Harold: I read it, and that was enough. When first brought face to face with him at a social gathering, she... |
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