George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron

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Textual Production Margaret Croker
MC published, with her name and a quotation from Byron , A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly.
Romilly, a reforming lawyer, killed himself after his wife's death.
Croker, Margaret. A Tribute to the Memory of Sir Samuel Romilly. John Souter.
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Textual Production Dorothy Whipple
The country house which is the centre and almost the leading character of this novel was called in DW 's earliest working drafts The Manor and later Saunby (still used in the novel as published)...
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
She had begun writing the title poem (pages 3-77 when printed) while at boarding school. She dedicated the volume to Lord Holland and quoted Byron on the title page.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Textual Production Catherine Gore
As a girl Catherine Moody (later CG ) was called The Poetess by her friends. Two juvenile poems (one a final canto to Byron 's Childe Harold, the other entitled The Graves of the...
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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She dedicated the printed...
Textual Production Jane Loudon
The title-page bears a couplet from Byron 's Don Juan: 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print, / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Textual Production Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
The presentation copy of Frankenstein, first edition, which MS inscribed To Lord Byron , from the Author, turned up among the papers of the Labour politician Douglas Jay. It is only the second...
Textual Production Edna O'Brien
In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .
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Textual Features A. Mary F. Robinson
In her preface she claims the ballad and other popular poetic forms as the especial territory of women writers. Although her poems, says this preface, lack the splendour of Byron or Hugo , or the...
Textual Features Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
On Byron 's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Most of her poems about women celebrate those who are spotless in morals and reputation—she takes care that non-spotless women are killed off...
Textual Features Mary Ann Browne
Her title poem is rich and dignified, written in Spenser ian stanzas. The later Ocean is a poem in similar style. Many other pieces are social and sentimental, with titles like Tears, Loves...
Textual Features Una Marson
UM 's poetry has sometimes been characterised as uneven. Her best poems, however, explore black, female identity with perception and passionate honesty. Despite the pervasive influence on her work of Romantic poets such as Shelley

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