Lady Byron and Her Daughters
A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force. The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision. After she and her infant child were cast out of their home, she was left to navigate the stifling and unsupportive social environment of Regency England. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Byron’s work, however, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her…
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October 20, 2015Julia Markus received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in comparative literature from Boston University, and her Ph.D. in Victorian literature from the University of Maryland. She is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University, and is the author of five novels and a biography of the Brownings' marriage, Dared and Done, as well as the editor of two volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry. She is a recipient of both a National Endowment for the Arts and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. She researched part of Across an Untried Sea while a fellow at Hawthornden Castle, outside Edinburgh. She lives in Connecticut and New York.
Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Julia Markus
Dared And Done
Julia Markus