George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

The title-page bears a couplet from Byron 's Don Juan: 'Tis pleasant sure to see one's name in print, / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.

In March 1819 Joanna Baillie had described her as Still hankering after the Drama, but fearful & diffident of herself. Dacre's prefatory comments play down her ambition and even her skill, but she...

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.

DW set up her own Penns in the Rocks Press and in conjunction with publishers William Collins produced volumes of Byron and Shelley each illustrated in black-and-white and colour.

In Byron in Love, EOB presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke , and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh .

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)...

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...

She wrote this novel, she said, because she admired Byron 's poem Childe Harold, but thought it wanted a finish. (This was no wonder, since only the first two cantos had so far...

ME did some writing even after she moved to Sussex, but she dissipated her inadequate energy on competing projects: a play about Byron , a short study of John Clare , a few stories...

She quotes L. E. L. on her title page, and dedicates her work (these early efforts of my timid Muse) to Princess Augusta Sophia . A preface by an unnamed male friend...

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. She dedicated the printed...

HBS defended the role taken by Lady Byron in her marriage to the poet , which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.

The title-page quotes Byron .

The letter that CF wrote about her first meeting with Germaine de Staël (also, apparently, her first meeting with Byron ) concentrates firmly on de Staël: Eloquence is a great word, but not too big...