George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

At the date of the first Miss Byron novel, Elizabeth Strutt was publishing as Mrs Byron while the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron , had had only a single juvenile collection reviewed. While the name...

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

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...

ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...

Byron considered this poem inadequate as a result of FH 's lack of first-hand knowledge of Greece; her position on the controversial appropriation of the Greek antiquities by Britain also differed from his.

The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.

Byron disparaged what he judged to be Rosa's absurd and incomprehensible prose in masquerade in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, published in March 1809, linking her to the Della Cruscans . She...

It was widely and enthusiastically reviewed. Biographer Lorna Reynolds says KOB , like Byron , awoke one day to find herself famous.

In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyMarya DeVoto noted the interest in The Star of Attéghéi (and other poems in the volume) in the idea of exile, and the elegaic tone that pervades the volume...

William Lamb worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...

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...

Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning...