Lady Byron

In his sketches of places and people abroad, Mr.

Brown describes an interview between Ellen Craft and Lady Byron as follows.

Some months since, a lady, apparently not more than fifty years of age, entered a small dwelling on the estate of the Earl of Ludlows, situated in the county of Surrey.

After ascending a flight of stairs and passing through a narrow passage, she found herself in a small but neat room with plain furniture.

She was entertained at public breakfasts and at these spoke with the greatest acceptance to both men and women.

The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Byron showed her great attention.

Carlyle was much pleased with the Quaker lady whose quiet manner had a soothing effect on him, wrote Mrs. Carlyle to a friend.

At Glasgow, she held a delighted audience for nearly two hours in breathless attention, said the press.

General Bowles, the master of the household, came forward to meet me, and Lord Byron, who was one of the lords in waiting.

I found Madame Lisboa already arrived, and soon came in Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquise and Marchioness of Exeter, Lord and Lady Dalhousie, Lord Charles Wellesley, son of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Byron, and Mr. Hallam.

We sat and talked as at any other place, when at last the Queen was announced.

the gentlemen ranged themselves on one side and we on the other and the queen and prince passed through she bowing and we profoundly courtesying as soon as she passed the marquis of exeter came over and took madame lisboa and lord dalhousie came and took me The Queen and Prince sat in the middle of a long table, and I was just opposite the Prince, between Lord Exeter and Lord Dalhousie, who is the son of the former Governor of Nova Scotia, was in the last ministry, and a most agreeable person.

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B. london may sixteenth eighteen forty seven my dear sons my letters by this steamer will have very little interest for you as from being in complete retirement i have no new things to relate to you We have taken advantage of our leisure to drive a little into the country, and on Tuesday I had a pleasure of the highest order in driving down to Esher and passing a quiet day with Lady Byron, the widow of the poet.

She is an intimate friend of Miss Murray, who has long wished us to see her and desired her to name the day for our visit.

In the very public scandal that ensues, Donna Inez, who is Dewan's moralistic mum, sends him away on a sort of punishment grand tour of Europe in the hope that he will get better manners.

And we ought to note that Donna Inez was immediately recognisable to just about the entire Western world as a vicious caricature of Byron's ex-wife, Lady Byron, nay, Annabella Milbank.

And I would say that the act of making his hero's mother into a portrait of his own wife probably indicates something of the extent of Byron's mummy issues and his problems with women, perhaps generally.

And the world could recognise Lady Byron as Donna Innes because when she left Byron in January 1816, after just one year of marriage, taking their infant daughter with her...

And her mathematical skills, I think, didn't come from Byron, did they? Safe to say.

Her mother was a good mathematician.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.