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Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Julia Markus
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Description for Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Hardcover. A startling re-evaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as a single mother and progressive force. Num Pages: 384 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 245 x 34. Weight in Grams: 686.
Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, 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 a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognised as a pioneer of computer science and she saved from death her adoptive daughter , Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron's incestuous affair with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships ... Read more
Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, 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 a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognised as a pioneer of computer science and she saved from death her adoptive daughter , Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron's incestuous affair with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393082685
SKU
V9780393082685
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99-21
About Julia Markus
Julia Markus, the author of three acclaimed biographies, is the director of creative writing and a professor of English at Hofstra University. She lives in New York City.
Reviews for Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Markus writes with commendable authority on certain aspects of Annabella's life.
Literary Review ... lucid biography...
Nature The book presents a firm case against history's 'overwhelming devotion to male genius' and gives Lady Byron the attention she deserves.
Country Life
Literary Review ... lucid biography...
Nature The book presents a firm case against history's 'overwhelming devotion to male genius' and gives Lady Byron the attention she deserves.
Country Life