Lord byron full biography of betty
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Love Affairs of Lord Byron, by Francis Henry Gribble
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Works by the Same Author
MADAME DE STAËL AND HER LOVERS
GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS
ROSSEAU AND THE WOMEN HE LOVED
CHATEAUBRIAND AND HIS COURT OF WOMEN
THE PASSIONS OF THE FRENCH ROMANTICS
Lord Byron.
THE LOVE AFFAIRS
OF LORD BYRON
BY FRANCIS GRIBBLE
AUTHOR OF “GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS” ETC.
LONDON
EVELEIGH NASH
FAWSIDE HOUSE
1910
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PREFACE
Whether a book is called “The Love Affairs of Lord Byron” or “The Life of Lord Byron” can make very little difference to the contents of its pages. Byron’s love affairs were the principal incidents of his life, and almost the only ones. Like Chateaubriand, he might have spoke of “a procession of women” as the great panoramic effect of h
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William Byron, 5th Baron Byron
British politician
For other people named William Byron, see William Byron (disambiguation).
For other people titled Lord Byron, see Baron Byron.
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (5 November 1722 – 19 May 1798), was a British nobleman, peer, politician, and great-uncle of the poet George Gordon Byron who succeeded him in the title. As a result of a number of stories that arose after a duel, and then because of his financial difficulties, he became known after his death as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron".
Early life
[edit]Byron was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron, and his wife the Hon. Frances Berkeley, a descendant of John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. He inherited his title upon the death of his father on 18 August 1736.[1]
He clearly had some military aspirations, enlisting in the Royal Navy as a midshipman aged 14 and serving aboard HMS Victory as a lieutenant at 18. At 17 he was also listed as a
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Betty Paoli
Austrian writer (1814–1894)
Betty Paoli (born Barbara Elisabeth Glück; 30 månad 1814 – 5 July 1894)[1] was an Austrian writer, a companion of Princess Maria Anna Schwarzenberg (1767–1848) and friend of Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach. Paoli was a poet, reporter, translator, and art and theater critic.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Barbara "Babette" Glück was born on 30 December 1814, in Vienna, Austria, to Theresia Glück, who had married sju months before to a high-ranking military doctor named Glück. Barbara was an unplanned pregnancy and her natural father was a prominent Hungarian nobleman. Theresia was soon widowed and left with a modest inheritance, which she soon frittered away. Mother and daughter frequently moved because of Theresia's erratic tendencies. Babette was largely self-educated, later describing her formation as à la diable ["haphazard; mixed up"], and became an avid reader. Her first time apart from her mother was whe