In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Seymour, Miranda2018
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In 1815, the clever, courted, and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36. The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet. Ada didn't. 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. Educated by some of the most learned minds in England, she combined that scholarly discipline with a rebellious heart and a visionary imagination.
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Author:
Seymour, Miranda, author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Collation:
547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Maps on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781471138577 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.0810922821.BYRO920.LOVE821.7941.081821
LC class:
DA554
Local class:
821.7
Language:
English
Subject:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- FamilyLovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 -- FamilyLovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852LiteratureWomen mathematicians -- Great Britain -- BiographyMathematicians -- Great Britain -- BiographyByron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860Women social reformers -- Great Britain -- BiographySocial reformers -- Great Britain -- BiographyBiography
BRN:
2186889
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