Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron

She felt that boys and girls learned better separately, and that she might have more of an influence on the girls if she established a separate school for their own needs. A major financial...

This house was bought for her by Lady Byron , who also arranged for Carpenter's close friend and fellow activist Frances Power Cobbe to move into Red Lodge with her in November that year. Cobbe...

Tuckerman (1778 - 20 April 1840) was a Unitarian minister whose work among Boston's poorest earned him the title of the father of American social work. A lifelong friend of William Ellery Channing , he...

Jealous of the interest her daughter was showing in the man she had worked to demonize, Lady Noel Byron was angered by Ada's visit to Newstead, and relations between the two deteriorated significantly after the...

Her mother survived till 1860. Unwillingly enmeshed in family scandals, and having already destroyed various papers, she burned more after Ada's death and embargoed her correspondence for thirty years. But while she was silent others...

AAB travelled on the Continent with her mother, Lady Noel Byron , and a small entourage of friends.

Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron , née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a...

Some, including Lady Byron , speculated that Medora was the child of Byron and his half-sister Augusta Byron Leigh . AAB had already, in 1828, broken with Augusta over the issue of publishing Byron's letters...

Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron , and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child...

Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke (whose daughter became Lady Byron ), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve , William Sotheby , William Harness

The verse contents of this collection include a poem probably written thirty-six years before, Recollections of a Dear and Steady Friend, Anne Isabella nee Milbanke (generally known as Annabella) , widow of the poet...

But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney —who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset , sister of Charlotte Smith , might be...