relationships
Ada Lovelace
What was his daughter's name?
Born on January 22, 1788 in London
when was he born? where?
bisexual
what is his sexuality?
The famous monarch Don Juan meets in the story.
Who is Catherine the Great?
Lord Byron’s last work.
What is Don Juan?
Augusta
Who's his half sister that he was rumored to have an affair with?
The son of catherine Gordon of Gight and captain John Byron.
who were his parents?
An "ebullition of passion" for his cousin Margaret Parker in 1800 inspired his "first dash into poetry."
Who inspired his first dash into poetry?
The modern name for the city Don Juan was sold into slavery in.
What is Istanbul?
The radical journal Lord Byron wrote for.
What was the Liberal?
His lifelong friendship with John Cam Hobhouse.
Who stirred his interest in liberal Whiggism?
Catherine yron raised her son in an atmosphere variously colored by her tenderness, fierce temper, insensitivity and pride.
In what atmosphere did Catherine raise her son?
He would enjoy chiefly younger, boys throughout his life; before reaching his teen years he had been sexually initiated by his maid.
He was attracted to buys but What happened when he reached his teen years?
This brought Don Juan to a Greek Island at the beginning of the tale.
What is a shipwreck?
Lord Byron’s publisher.
Who was John Murray?
His connection with Lady Caroline
In January 1812 Byron resumed his seat in the House of Lords, allying himself with the Liberal Whigs represented by Henry Richard Vassall Fox, Lord Holland
what is the important event that happened on January 1812?
In the summer of 1803 he fell so deeply in love with his distant cousin, the beautiful-and engaged-Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, that he interrupted his education for a term to be near her.
what happened in the summer of 1803? ;)
The term that refers to how writers use irony to criticize and parody society, as Byron did in Don Juan.
What is satire?
The poem that made him famous “overnight”.
What is Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
She declined the proposal in the belief that Byron would never be "the object of that strong affection" which would make her "happy in domestic life. She later regretted and ended up marrying years later.
What was the result of proposing marriage to Elizabeth milbanke's niece, Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke?
He developed a lifelong love for the Bible and an abiding fascination with the Calvinist doctrines of innate evil and predestined salvation.
what effect did his Presbyterian nurse Byron have on him?
He was conducting an affair with the mature Jane Elizabeth Scott, Lady Oxford, a patroness of the Reform Movement.
How was Jane Elizabeth Scott relevant to his life?
The country Don Juan fights with in the siege of Ismail, after escaping slavery.
What is Russia?
Byron’s first published volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness, appeared in 1807. A sarcastic critique of the book in The Edinburgh Review provoked his retaliation in 1809 with a couplet satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he attacked the contemporary literary scene. This work gained him his first recognition.
What is "hours of Idleness"?