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In Byron's Wake - The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace (Paperback)
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In Byron's Wake - The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace (Paperback)
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In 1815, the clever, courted, and cherished Annabella Milbanke
married the notorious and brilliant 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. Ada didn't. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most
progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was
introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits.
Educated by some of the most learned minds in England, she combined
that scholarly discipline with a rebellious heart and a visionary
imagination. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a
steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly
unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of
Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict-as nobody
would do for another century-the dawn of the modern computer age.
When Ada died-like her father, she was only 36-great things seemed
still to lie ahead for her as a passionate astronomer. Even while
mired in debt from gambling and crippled by cancer, she was
frenetically employing Faraday's experiments with light refraction
to explore the analysis of distant stars. Drawing on fascinating
new material, 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. During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a
paragon of virtue; within ten years of her death, she was vilified
as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a hundred years later,
Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly
controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender
ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply
complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality. Miranda Seymour
has written a masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing
how two turbulent lives were often governed and always haunted by
the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that
extraordinary father whom Ada never knew.
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