Miranda Seymour
In Byron's Wake
In Byron's Wake
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Annabella Milbanke married Lord Byron in 1815 and fled with their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace, the following year. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Ada was educated by some of the most learned minds in England and combined a scholarly discipline with a rebellious heart and a visionary imagination. She dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse and amplified Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of our modern computer age. 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 Byron.
\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 560 pages
\n Publication date: 22 March 2018
\n Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the 2019 Elma Dangerfield Prize Shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
This magnificent, highly readable double biography vividly brings these two driven, complicated women to life.
The Financial Times A gripping saga of a double-biography
Daily Mail A masterful portrait
The Times Vastly enjoyable
Literary Review Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched
The Oldie
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.
Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824, aged 36.
The one thing he had asked his wife to do was to make sure that their daughter never became a poet.
Ada didn't.
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.
Even while mired in debt from gambling and crippled by cancer, she was frenetically employing Faraday's experiments with light refraction to explore the analysis.
\n Weight: 778g\n
Dimension: 168 x 242 x 43 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781471138577\n \n
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