Author: PIERSON, JOAN
Title: The Real Lady Byron
Description: London, Robert Hale. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709049579). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from creasing to the top corner tips of three pages and a small x in the margin of one page) with near Fine dustjacket. 336 pages. 13 illustrations. In the year of the bicentenary of the birth of Annabella Noel Byron, Joan Pierson makes a timely and sympathetic reassessment of the misunderstood and much maligned woman. She refutes the unfavourable contemporary judgements made about her and reveals instead the many benevolent causes she supported, which included the setting up of schools, the abolition of slavery and the purchase of a house 'for the purposes of rescuing young girls from sin and misery'. The real and moving reasons for her separation from Lord Byron are examined, and detailed information is provided about Lord Byron and their daughter Ada and their lives both together and apart, supported by fresh analysis of Byron's letters and journals. A1B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Lord Byron, Lady Annabella Noel Byron, Annabella Milbanke, Lord Wentworth, Ada Byron Countess of Lovelace, Anti-Slavey Society, 0709049579


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