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A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision. After she and her infant child were cast out of their home, she was left to navigate the stifling and unsupportive social environment of Regency England. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Byron's work, however, 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 talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized and lauded as a pioneer of computer science, and saved from death her "adoptive daughter" Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron's incest with his sister.
About the Author
Julia Markus has been called, "one of the most gifted novelists of her generation," by Pat Conroy. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and three significant and oft cited biographical works. She received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for her first novel, UNCLE and has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University where she also teaches. Her latest book, LADY BYRON AND HER DAUGHTERS, a biography on the trials and tribulations of Lady Byron, is now available for pre-order through Amazon.com.
