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Lady Byron & her daughters

"A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as a single mother and progressive force. 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-...

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Main Author: Markus, Julia, 1939- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, > Baroness, > 1792-1860.
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, > Baroness, > 1792-1860 > Family.
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, > Baroness, > 1792-1860 > Marriage.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > Baron, > 1788-1824 > Marriage.
Mothers and daughters > England > Biography.
Authors' spouses > England > Biography.
Single mothers > England > Biography.
Women poets, English > Biography.
Women mathematicians > England > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One
  • On her own
  • Letters in love
  • The underside of the Moon
  • Piccadilly Terrace
  • Dearest Duck
  • Part Two
  • Denial and isolation
  • Anger? Bargaining
  • Depression
  • Acceptance? Great Scott!
  • Educating Ada
  • Educating England
  • The half sisters
  • Intermezzo: Lady Byron time-travels on the Brownings' Moon
  • Attempting amends at the White Hart
  • Enduring motherhood
  • Part Three
  • Strange history
  • The lost chapter
  • Lady Byron and her grandson.

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