Byron's elder half-sister, Augusta
(child of his father's first marriage, and married in 1807 to a Colonel Leigh), became at the very least her brother's closest woman friend and, in the opinion of his biographer...
Family and Intimate relationships
Medora Gordon Byron
It is impossible that the woman described as MGB
's mother by Jane Briancourt could have been the mother of the novelist. Julia Maria Byron's mother was Charlotte Henrietta Byron née Dallas.
Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage. http://www.thepeerage.com/.
Briancourt writes...
Friends, Associates
Anna Brownell Jameson
By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to...
Textual Production
Medora Gordon Byron
A play entitled Zameo, acted this year, was printed with Jane Briancourt
's account of its supposed author as Memoir of Medora Gordon Byron. As the facts are given, this cannot be the...
Travel
Augusta Ada Byron
AAB
, Countess of Lovelace, arrived in Paris to meet her destitute cousin (and possibly half-sister) Medora Leigh
.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
