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  1. Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother.

  2. Jul 9, 2024 · Allegra, who tragically passed away at the age of five in 1822 due to an epidemic, was initially interred at the nunnery of Bagnacavallo near Ravenna. Lord Byron had entrusted Allegra to the convent for her upbringing and education. Following her death, Byron expressed a desire to have her remains transported to England for burial at Harrow ...

  3. Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra. She is thought to be the subject of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

  4. Aug 15, 2022 · Allegra – initially named Alba – was the product of one of Byron’s exploits, this time with a woman named Claire Clairmont, the teenage stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley, the woman behind the likes of Frankenstein.

  5. Apr 10, 2024 · She was the mother of his daughter Allegra, whom he consigned to a convent in Italy for her schooling, where she died aged five. Clairmont is no more than a footnote in Byron’s history, but now...

  6. www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archiveAllegra - The Atlantic

    In the winter of 1816 a handsome, vivacious, dark-eyed girl called on Lord Byron in London, and begged him to use his influence in obtaining for her an engagement at Drury Lane. She was precisely...

  7. May 15, 2020 · Byron handed his daughter off to whoever would take her, keeping her barely long enough to change her name to Allegra. She bounced between homes before landing at a convent. Despite her letter to him, penned on her behalf by the nuns, he never once visited her and moved her farther away from Claire after she begged to see her daughter, overcome ...

  8. Nov 12, 2018 · Clara Allegra—a child whose extraordinary resemblance to (of all people) Annabella was immediately noticed both by Byron and his valet, Fletcher—died of malaria or typhus in an Italian convent in 1822. She was five years old. Article continues below. Byron, from afar, expressed an erratic but fatherly interest in his legitimate child.

  9. The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination. BBC Radio 4

  10. Necessary to My Happiness. The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination.

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