George Gordon sixth Baron Byron

ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

She began working on this a little before her collection of children's stories. She was at first intimidated by the idea of doing historical, archival research. Her publisher, Hamilton , encouraged her, and when she...

According to her own account, LCL wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence...

Just a few days before this MS , her husband , Byron , and Polidori , concocted a project to write ghost stories in friendly competition with each other. On 15 June they discussed the...

MB wrote occasional verse from her youth. She and Byron exchanged poems at Genoa in May 1823.

TM later established himself as a biographer with a string of books: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), an edition of Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1830), and...

Politically, CF was a conservative. She made fun of committed radicals like Byron or William Cobbett who demanded reform of the British constitution. She put forward more than once, with seriousness underlying her humour, the...

He supported the Whig Party . These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron , an ardent Whig.

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry. Some of her satirical poems were published. She wrote her first novel as a personal testament and retaliation after...

Marguerite Blessington wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account...

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...

With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb .

A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington appeared in the New Monthly Magazine.

This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) (which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF appeared...