Borrow it
Coverart for item
The Resource In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour

In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour

Creator
Author
Summary
  • "A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron."--Amazon
  • 1815. Annabella Milbanke married the notorious 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. Introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits, Ada combined that discipline with astronomy and a visionary imagination. She amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age. 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. -- adapted from jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Extent
547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Annabella -- Ada -- Visions -- The making and breaking of a reputation
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Part one: Annabella. Anticipation (1761-92) ; A very fine child (1792-1810) ; The siege of Annabella (1810-12) ; Entering the lists (1812-13) ; An epistolary courtship (1813-14) ; A sojourn in hell (January to March 1815) ; Unlucky for some: 13 Piccadilly Terrace (1815-16) ; The separation (1816) ; In the public eye (1816-24) -- Part two: Ada. In search of a father ; A rainbow's arc (1829-35) ; Mathematical friendships (1834-5) ; Ada's marriage (1835-40) ; An unconventional wife (1836-40) ; Ambitions and delusions (1840-1) ; A cuckoo in the nest (1841-3) ; My fair interpretress (1843-4) -- Part three: Visions. The enchantress (1843-4) ; The lady from Porlock (1844-9) ; Vanity Fair (1847-50) ; The hand of the past (1850-1) ; Rainbow's end (1851-2) ; Life after Ada (1852-3) -- Part four: The making and breaking of a reputation. Enshrinement (1853--60) ; Outcast -- Timeline of events -- Note on Ada's health
Isbn
9781681778723
Instance
Label
In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Title
In Byron's wake
Title remainder
the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Statement of responsibility
Miranda Seymour
Title variation
In Byrons wake
Title variation remainder
the turbulent lives of Lord Byrons wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron."--Amazon
  • 1815. Annabella Milbanke married the notorious 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. Introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits, Ada combined that discipline with astronomy and a visionary imagination. She amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age. 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. -- adapted from jacket
Member of
Writing style
Award
New York Times Notable Book, 2019
Biography type
collective biography
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10740176
Cataloging source
YDX
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Seymour, Miranda
Dewey number
821.7
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • plates
  • genealogical tables
Index
index present
LC call number
PR4382
LC item number
.S49 2018b
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron
  • Lovelace, Ada King
  • Byron family
  • Poets, English
  • Women
Target audience
adult
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Label
In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-483) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Annabella -- Ada -- Visions -- The making and breaking of a reputation
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Part one: Annabella. Anticipation (1761-92) ; A very fine child (1792-1810) ; The siege of Annabella (1810-12) ; Entering the lists (1812-13) ; An epistolary courtship (1813-14) ; A sojourn in hell (January to March 1815) ; Unlucky for some: 13 Piccadilly Terrace (1815-16) ; The separation (1816) ; In the public eye (1816-24) -- Part two: Ada. In search of a father ; A rainbow's arc (1829-35) ; Mathematical friendships (1834-5) ; Ada's marriage (1835-40) ; An unconventional wife (1836-40) ; Ambitions and delusions (1840-1) ; A cuckoo in the nest (1841-3) ; My fair interpretress (1843-4) -- Part three: Visions. The enchantress (1843-4) ; The lady from Porlock (1844-9) ; Vanity Fair (1847-50) ; The hand of the past (1850-1) ; Rainbow's end (1851-2) ; Life after Ada (1852-3) -- Part four: The making and breaking of a reputation. Enshrinement (1853--60) ; Outcast -- Timeline of events -- Note on Ada's health
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Extent
547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781681778723
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table
System control number
  • on1023544586
  • (OCoLC)1023544586
Label
In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-483) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Annabella -- Ada -- Visions -- The making and breaking of a reputation
  • The Noels, Milbankes, Byrons and Kings -- Part one: Annabella. Anticipation (1761-92) ; A very fine child (1792-1810) ; The siege of Annabella (1810-12) ; Entering the lists (1812-13) ; An epistolary courtship (1813-14) ; A sojourn in hell (January to March 1815) ; Unlucky for some: 13 Piccadilly Terrace (1815-16) ; The separation (1816) ; In the public eye (1816-24) -- Part two: Ada. In search of a father ; A rainbow's arc (1829-35) ; Mathematical friendships (1834-5) ; Ada's marriage (1835-40) ; An unconventional wife (1836-40) ; Ambitions and delusions (1840-1) ; A cuckoo in the nest (1841-3) ; My fair interpretress (1843-4) -- Part three: Visions. The enchantress (1843-4) ; The lady from Porlock (1844-9) ; Vanity Fair (1847-50) ; The hand of the past (1850-1) ; Rainbow's end (1851-2) ; Life after Ada (1852-3) -- Part four: The making and breaking of a reputation. Enshrinement (1853--60) ; Outcast -- Timeline of events -- Note on Ada's health
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Extent
547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781681778723
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table
System control number
  • on1023544586
  • (OCoLC)1023544586

Subject

Genre

Member of

Included in

Library Locations

    • Williamsburg LibraryBorrow it
      515 Scotland Street, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, US
      37.377573 -76.770995

Library Links

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Williamsburg Regional Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.
Processing Feedback ...