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

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

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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. 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 today of our 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. 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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eng
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x, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
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Maps on endpapers
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9781471138577
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In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
Title
In Byron's wake
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the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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Miranda Seymour
Title variation
In Byrons wake
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the turbulent lives of Lord Byrons wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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Language
eng
Summary
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. 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 today of our 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. 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
Summary
The only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was to become a pioneer of the computer revolution. This masterful new biography is a portrait of two remarkable women, Ada and her mother Annabella, haunted by the mercurial spirit of the notorious poet
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Award
New York Times Notable Book, 2019
Biography type
collective biography
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10740176
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BT
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Seymour, Miranda
Dewey number
821/.7
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron
  • Lovelace, Ada King
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron
  • Byron family
  • Reformers
  • Mathematicians
  • Poets, English
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adult
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the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour
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Publication
Note
Maps on endpapers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-483) and index
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volume
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rdacarrier.
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  • cartographic image
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Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781471138577
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(hbk.)
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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  • n
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illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), genealogical table
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regular print
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In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour
Publication
Note
Maps on endpapers
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-483) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
  • cri
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
  • rdacontent.
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9781471138577
Isbn Type
(hbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), genealogical table
Specific material designation
regular print

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