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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG
and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan's genius for social life, and for forging relations with famous and celebrated people, continued from youth to age. On her second visit to London she met the bluestocking hostess the Countess of Cork and Orrery |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | When CF
met both Byron
and Germaine de Staël
in spring 1814 at a dinner party at the house of Sir Humphry Davy
, she was unimpressed by Byron and his outpourings of radical opinion... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Anna Letitia Barbauld
visited HM
's mother from time to time. HM was impressed by the stamp of superiority on all she said. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 302 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | During her time pursuing her social life alone in London as a widow, she made the acquaintance of Byron
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | In GenoaMarguerite Blessington
formed a friendship with Lord Byron
; her conversations with him over nine weeks became the basis of her most popular book. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 68 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Harriette Wilson | 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- |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | 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... |
Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
Health | Charlotte Dacre | Since CD
was said to have been ill for a long time before she died, some particular illness may have caused Byron
to suppose her dead in 1816. |
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