The title-page quotes Pope
, who also (with his Messiah) stands first among the contents. Some pieces are unascribed; others are by Byron
(The Isles of Greece), Jane Taylor
(The Squire's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Caroline's (here Kitty Ashe's) obsession, Byron
, is thinly disguised as the poet Geoffrey Cliffe. Despite it inspiration in this nearly one-hundred-old relationship, the novel's setting is contemporary and Kitty is a fast cigarette-smoking...
Literary responses
Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
FT
wrote her first publicly circulated poem, Lines Written on the Burial of the Daughter of a Celebrated Author in memory of Lord Byron
's illegitimate daughter Allegra
.
Hall, N. John. Salmagundi: Byron, Allegra, and the Trollope Family. Beta Phi Mu.
32, 36
Cultural formation
Frances Trollope
FT
's tolerance of her local vicar was tested, however, when the poet Byron
decided to have his five-year-old, illegitimate daughter Allegra
—born to Claire Clairmont
—buried at Harrow-on-the-Hill, near which he had spent time...
Publishing
Melesina Trench
MT
issued, through her usual Southampton printer, another pamphlet, Lines on Reading the last Canto of [Byron
's] Childe Harold.
The University of Texas at Austin
holds the only known copy. (MT
also reproved Byron
in verse for his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.)
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
231
Education
Annie Tinsley
She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer
to Beattie
,
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
The epigraph to the volume is from Moore
's Loves of the Angels. AT
was assumed to be influenced by Felicia Hemans
, but denied that this was the case. The ruin and misery...
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...
Characters
Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas
calls her Caroline Lamb
character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas
's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Thomas
With The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harolde in Prose, Elizabeth Thomas
entered the controversy swirling around Byron
, again calling herself Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle and mentioning a long list of previous works.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 421
Publishing
Elizabeth Thomas
With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas
entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron
and Lady Caroline Lamb
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 438
Timeline
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...
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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...
Women writers item
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...
Women writers item
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
.