George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

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

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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...
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 Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL published another satire on Byron 's writing: Gordon, A Tale, A Poetical Review of Don Juan, in two cantos.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Textual Production George Paston
"To Lord Byron ": Feminine Profiles Based Upon Unpublished Letters, a volume of women's letters that GP left unfinished, was posthumously issued, completed by a younger historian, Peter Quennell .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1948 (3 June 1939): 329
Miller, Anita, and George Paston. “Afterword”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, pp. 261-5.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
She wrote this novel, she said, because she admired Byron 's poem Childe Harold, but thought it wanted a finish.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
(This was no wonder, since only the first two cantos had so far...
Textual Production Sarah Green
This too was in three volumes from A. K. Newman of the former Minerva Press . Its title-page quotes Byron .
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare , Byron , Shaw , and Wilde . It was shown on Sunday evenings.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
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 Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
The manuscript of this play subsequently went missing. There were stories that Byron had plagiarised his highly successful Kruitzner adaptation, Werner, from it.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins.
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Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre , later wrote that she owned a copy of the Riddle on the Letter H in Fanshawe's handwriting dating from around 1806, before anyone had heard of Byron .
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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The...
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS published his long poem Queen Mab, following quickly on Byron 's The Giaour.
Granniss, Ruth S. A Descriptive Catalogue. The Grolier Club.
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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 George Paston
GP had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot , Lady Caroline Lamb , Augusta Leigh , Lady Melbourne , Annabella Milbanke , Claire Clairmont , and the actresses Susan Boyce and Mrs Spencer...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS helped Edward John Trelawny by editing his autobiographical Adventures of a Younger Son, 1831: among other things she added epigraphs from both Byron and Percy Shelley , and supplied his title. She also...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
The first publication by Miss Byron appeared in five volumes from the Minerva Press: The English-Woman, A Novel. Not until a British Library (then the British Museum ) catalogue of 1885 was the...

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15 July 1819: Byron began to publish in instalments (opening...

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15 July 1819

Byron began to publish in instalments (opening with cantos one and two) his satiricalmock-epicpoemDon Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.

December 1821: Byron published his verse drama Cain: A Mystery;...

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December 1821

Byron published his verse dramaCain: A Mystery; the title-page said 1822.

27 January 1822: The National Congress of Epidaurus declared...

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27 January 1822

The National Congress of Epidaurus declared Greek independence from Turkey; in practice, however, this was not fully achieved until 1829.

12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...

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12 August 1822

The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh , killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington 's victories and of repressive policies at home.

October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...

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October 1822

Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt briefly published at Pisa.

1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...

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1825

Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

23 April 1826: In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi...

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23 April 1826

In the ongoing Greek War of Liberation, Missolonghi in Greece fell to the Ottomans after a year of siege.

1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...

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1866

The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.

1870: The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some...

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1870

The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some women maintained modesty at the dinner table by secretly practising what is now termed binge eating, a component of bulimia nervosa.

6 October 1927: Warner Brothers released the first film with...

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6 October 1927

Warner Brothers released the first film with a spoken dialogue soundtrack, or talkie, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson .

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

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December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .

1979: Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply...

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1979

Anna Adams published her verseletterA Reply to Intercepted Mail (A Verse-Letter to W. H. Auden ) in the Peterloo Poets series.

13 April 1993: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, a play whose action...

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13 April 1993

Tom Stoppard 's Arcadia, a play whose action is divided between the early nineteenth century and the present day, opened (after previews) at the National Theatre in London.

By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...

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By 11 May 2002

John Murray , publishers of Austen and Byron among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith .

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