George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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

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Friends, Associates Catherine Hutton
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...
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil.
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey.
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Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ published her first historical biography, that of Lady Caroline Lamb (writer and lover of Byron ). It was the first full-length study of Lady Caroline to reach print.
In 2010 Contemporary Authors, inexplicably...
Education Pauline Johnson
PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...
Intertextuality and Influence Ellen Johnston
In contrast to the life-writings of her working-class contemporary Hannah Cullwick , EJ 's autobiography is remarkably self-reflexive and literary. She says that an account of her life in Dundee alone, her trials, disappointments, joys...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Kelty
The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...
Textual Features Adelaide Kemble
Bessie and her more assertive friend Ursula Hamilton are challenged by men in their social circle about the alleged inferiority of women, as proved by their failure to produce serious artistic work. Bessie thinks of...
Education Fanny Kemble
Fanny's reading here was important to her. She later regarded her close knowledge of the Bible as the greatest benefit I derived from my school training,
Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt.
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though she condemned the writings of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Textual Features Fanny Kemble
Of the hundred lyrics and sonnets, several cover topics of romance: My soul grows faint, my veins run liquid flame, / And my bewildered spirit seems to swim / In eddying whirls of passion, dizzily...
Literary responses Rudyard Kipling
RK 's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron 's much-quoted...
Literary responses L. E. L.
Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan was sexual and...
Textual Features L. E. L.
LEL's work was more varied, particularly in the miscellaneous poetry attached to such collections prefaced by longer poems, than has been recognized. Although much of her poetry does invoke sentiment, there is also a strongly...

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