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Lady Byron and Her Daughters (Hardcover)
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Lady Byron and Her Daughters (Hardcover)
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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 with her family, including the sister
Byron loved, runs like a live wire through this skillfully told,
ground-breaking biography of a remarkable woman who made a life for
herself and became a leading light in her century.
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