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Author: Julia Markus Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393248755 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 473
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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.
Author: Julia Markus Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393248755 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 473
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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.
Author: Ralph Gordon Noel Lovelace Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230258089 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI ADDITIONAL LETTERS: BYRON AND AUGUSTA The Hon. Mrs. Leigh To Lord Byron. (Enclosing hair.) The [Post Mark] [seal: Lord Byron "Augusta "] Newmarket 4 Bennet Street St. James's Free London. 29 NO 29 1813 Partager tous vos sentimens ne voir que par vos yeux n'agir que par vos conseils, ne vivre que pour vous, voila mes voeux, mes projets, & le seul destin qui peut me rendre heureuse [Enclosed is a small packet containing a lock of fine dark brown hair tied with white silk. Inside the paper of the packet, and underneath the lock of hair, is written in autograph: AUGUSTA On the outside of the paper containing the hair is written by Lord Byron]: La Chevelure of the one whom I most loved + [Of the following thirty-four letters, thirty-one are to Mrs. Leigh and three to Lady Byron. Of these I Sossess in most cases both the original letters and Lady iyron's copies from them, which she took under the advice of Colonel Doyle and Dr. Lushington, whose anxiety to guard against any future misrepresentation of facts has been already described.1 Some of these originals are from Lady Byron's papers and some from a packet given many years ago by the late Mr. Murray 2 to Lord Lovelace and his sister. Mr. Murray, who had been a generous creditor to Mrs. Leigh in the distresses of her later years, bought these letters after her death from her heirs. It has been possible to supply some lost portions and erasures, made by Mrs. Leigh, from Lady Byron's copies. The letter of July 20, 1819, to Lady Byron may perhaps give the false impression that, after their parting, he wrote to her frequently and on indifferent matters. That is far from being the case. But since she has been supposed to have been unsympathetic to him on the subject of his poetry, it...
Author: Miranda Seymour Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681779366 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 445
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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.
Author: Fiona MacCarthy Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1444799878 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 864
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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.
Author: Julia Markus
Author: Julia Markus
Author: Ralph Gordon Noel Lovelace
Author: Miranda Seymour
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author: John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton
Author: Sir John Charles Fox
Author: John Cam Hobhouse![The True Story of Lord and Lady Byron as Told by Lord Macaulay, Thomas Moore, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Campbell, the Countess of Blessington, Lord Lindsay, the Countess Guiccioli, by Lady Byron, and by the Poet Himself, in Answer to Mrs. Beecher Stowe. [Edited by J. M.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/Yb1cAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Author: John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton