Anne Isabella Baroness Noel Byron

Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke (whose daughter became Lady Byron ), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve , William Sotheby , William Harness

By 1840, ABJ expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh (supposedly the daughter of Byron and his half-sister Augusta Leigh ) arrived in England to...

Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron , and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child...

But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney —who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset , sister of Charlotte Smith , might be...

She felt that boys and girls learned better separately, and that she might have more of an influence on the girls if she established a separate school for their own needs. A major financial...

She taught at the Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School for girl-criminals, founded by Carpenter with the aid of Lady Byron , and the Ragged Schools and Streetboys' Sunday School operated from a street called St...

In June 1840, MR attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson , Amelia Opie , and Lady Byron . She was the only Scotswoman present.MR was shocked...

ABJ went to the LondonWorld Anti-Slavery Convention in the company of Lady Byron , Amelia Opie , and Marion Reid .

HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a...

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

She had made up her mind to accept a mooted pension in 1832, but it never materialised and she came to feel that her independence of mind was too precious to accept such an obligation....

Mary Russell Mitford called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron , recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie , as...

The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy...

HBS defended the role taken by Lady Byron in her marriage to the poet , which seeks to modify if not to explode prevailing female stereotypes, in Lady Byron Vindicated.

GP had discovered these letters—written by, among others, Elizabeth Pigot , Lady Caroline Lamb , Augusta Leigh , Lady Melbourne , Annabella Milbanke , Claire Clairmont , and the actresses Susan Boyce and Mrs Spencer...