George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb set out to get her reading Milton , Shakespeare , Byron , theRambler, Virgil

HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Her father did not allow novels in...

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.

AP 's father, Bryan Waller Procter , was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) he participated in the gradual shift from use of physical...

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...

By 1877 JCF was rumoured to have had a brief but tempestuous affair, perhaps a broken engagement, with Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke, thirteenth Baron Wentworth, second Earl Lovelace , son of the mathematical genius Ada Lovelace

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.

In a rare gesture of interest in Byron —the father she had never met—AAB , Countess of Lovelace, visited his home, Newstead Abbey.

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...

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...

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...

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...

At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...

John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party and NAC , was a devoted socialist like KBG , an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life...

HW propositioned Byron by letter (have you any objection to introduce yourself to a very impertinent young woman . . . ?) but he turned her offer down.