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NOTE FROM LADY NOEL BYRON
BYRON
(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)
Formal Autograph Note to an unnamed correspondent
To inquire how Miss Murphys are, & when Mrs Sherwin is expected at 57 Conduit Street, 1 side oblong 8vo., no place, no date
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A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron's reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about alleged incest between Lord Byron and his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's intentions to leave England and return to the Mediterranean where he had lived in 1810. Their daughter Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace, worked as a mathematician with Charles Babbage, the pioneer of computer science.
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