In Byron's Wake : : the Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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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."-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
London : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 547 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781471138577
1471138577
1681778726
SUBJECTS
Byron, George Gordon Byron, -- Baron, -- 1788-1824 -- Family.
Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, -- Baroness, -- 1792-1860 -- Family.
Lovelace, Ada King, -- Countess of, -- 1815-1852 -- Family.
Byron family.