George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...

MB wrote occasional verse from her youth. She and Byron exchanged poems at Genoa in May 1823.

On Byron 's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets. 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...

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

A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington appeared in the New Monthly Magazine.

Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington appeared in volume form.

Marguerite Blessington wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account...

When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron . She based her work on...

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the...

This book describes the emotions and the atmosphere of Italy, rather than the practical details of travel. Memoirs of Byron play an important part, without repeating material used in Conversations of Lord Byron with...

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

Later again there was affection, if not much respect, in Byron 's declaration that he disdain[ed] to write an Atalantis (that is, to drop names about Don Juan's activities in England). But DM 's...