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. The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet.Īda didn't. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. In 1815, the clever, courted and cherished Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. 'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The Oldie 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography.brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times Shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
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