In Byron's Wake
In Byron's Wake

Author: Miranda Seymour

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1681779366

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In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron’s little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage’s unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age.During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue; within ten years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a hundred years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations both of his wife and his daughter.

Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Lady Byron and Her Daughters

Author: Julia Markus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0393248755

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A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force. The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision. After she and her infant child were cast out of their home, she was left to navigate the stifling and unsupportive social environment of Regency England. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Byron’s work, however, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized and lauded as a pioneer of computer science, and saved from death her “adoptive daughter” Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron’s incest with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships with her family, including the sister Byron loved, runs like a live wire through this skillfully told and groundbreaking biography of a remarkable woman who made a life for herself and became a leading light in her century.

Lady Byron Vindicated
Lady Byron Vindicated

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lady Byron Vindicated" (A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Byron
Byron

Author: Fiona MacCarthy

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 1444799878

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Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.

Lady Byron Vindicated
Lady Byron Vindicated

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13:

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Discover the scandalous story of Lady Byron and her tumultuous marriage to the infamous poet, Lord Byron. Despite her strict religious upbringing and impeccable education, Lady Byron found herself married to a man deemed "amoral" and agnostic. Their marriage was short-lived and ended in bitter acrimony, but Lady Byron's posthumously published reminiscences, written by the celebrated author Harriet Beecher Stowe, which detailed her suspicions of incest between her husband and his half-sister, caused a scandal that rocked Victorian society. In this captivating biography, delve into the life and secrets of Lady Byron and the shocking revelations that threatened to tarnish Lord Byron's legacy forever.