George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

Lady Byron was another of the Clives' acquaintances. Following a visit in 1843, CC wrote: That is the woman that has been tossed about by such vehement passions, by contact with such a fiery nature...

During her time pursuing her social life alone in London as a widow, she made the acquaintance of Byron .

EH 's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry 's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after...

In 1813 she again met de Staël (who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald . Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Byron , and Sir Walter Scott

All this provides background for a story about EH 's behaviour later the same year. John Polidori related that on Byron 's first visit to Mme de Staël 's chateau at Coppet in Switzerland...

In GenoaMarguerite Blessington formed a friendship with Lord Byron ; her conversations with him over nine weeks became the basis of her most popular book.

The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly has suggested, those who felt threatened or...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

LCL met with Byron 's funeral cortege (by accident, she said) on its way from London to Newstead; she never really recovered from the breakdown brought on by this encounter.