George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

EH continued learning throughout her life. She borrowed books whenever an opportunity arose. She discovered Burns and took him to her heart, and later, with slightly less enthusiasm, Byron 's Childe Harold.

Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

LCL made a strange and inconsistent attempt to elope with Byron ; she dressed as a page-boy with an overcoat covering her disguise, and apparently surprised him when she turned up. The project was not...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...