George Gordon sixth Baron 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Byron responded brilliantly in 1822 with The Vision of Judgment, which trounces the king and Southey with him.

ALM evidently possessed the kind of personality or manner that moved others to caricature her. She is mentioned in the dedication of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's The School for Scandal, and it has been...

She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince , according to the account in notes to her published journal. Her closest friends at this time, say her biographers, were Lady Worsley (whose chequered career...

The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley , their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont , Byron , and Dr John W. Polidori . Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore...

She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham and with Byron . Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro-Queen-Caroline...

The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron . Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...

While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...

TM had a talent for beginning friendships under bizarre circumstances. Francis Jeffrey 's review of Moore's anti-American Epistles, Odes, and other Poems (1806) sparked a famous (short-lived) feud between the two men. Jeffrey's negative review...

CH 's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney and Robert Bage , publisher Sir Richard Phillips , Elizabeth Arnold (whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay , but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's...