BYRON-A-GRAM

BYRON-A-GRAM

1. Early life

   • Born 1788
   • George Gordeon Noel Byron
   • Went to Harrow and Cambridge

2. Member of Liberal Whig Party - defended rights of the disadvantaged/working class

3. Notorious for his sexual escapades - liked men and woman

4. Lived a life of debauchery, gambling and drinking

5. Has numerous affairs - Lady Caroline Lamb; Lady Oxford (Jane Elizabeth Scott); Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster (subject of our poem)

6. Aristocrat

7. Freethinker

8. Championed liberty

9. Married Anabella Milbanke (20 years old bluestockings) in 1815

10. Had daughter with Milbanke called Augusta Ada

11. Divorced Milbanke in 1816 - marriage failed due to rumours about his bisexuality and sexual relationships with his half-sister, Augusta (who was 5 years older)

12. Augusta had a daughter believed to be Byron's - Named Elizabeth Medora

13. Was an English Romantic poet - a leading figure of the Romantic Movement in Literature

14. He was friends with Percy Shelley - he had a daughter with Mary Shelley's half-sister ClaireClairmont