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He sent her body to England
- When Allegra died, Byron was overwhelmed with grief. The daughter, when alive was a nuisance to him, now dead, he was distraughtto an unimaginable degree considering how he ignored her in life. He sent her body to England, making arrangements to have her interred in a grave at St Mary’s Parish Church, Harrow, Middlesex.
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Byron sent her body to England and wrote an inscription for her gravestone that read: "In memory of Allegra, daughter of G.G., Lord Byron, who died at Bagna Cavallo in Italy, 20 April 1822, Aged Five Years and Three Months,-'I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.'-2 Samuel, xii, 23"
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.
- Agnes Repplier
Aug 11, 2017 · Allegra’s tiny body was sent back to England. A ghoulish rumour circulated that the child was sent back to England in two parts to save money. Whilst untrue, it gave expression to just how depraved the people of England believed Byron to be. In fact, Byron lavished more attention on Allegra’s corpse than he ever had while she was breathing.
His aim, he said, was in a year or two either to send Allegra to school in England or put her in an Italian convent, but on no account, he went on, in the strongest criticism he ever made of Shelley's principles, would he allow her to go off with Claire ‘to perish of Starvation, and green fruit – or be taught to believe there is no Deity.’
Jan 22, 2012 · George Gordon Noel Byron was born, with a clubbed right foot, in London on January 22, 1788. He was the son of Catherine Gordon of Gight, an impoverished Scots heiress, and Captain John (“Mad Jack”) Byron, a fortune-hunting widower with a daughter, Augusta. The profligate captain squandered his wife’s inheritance, was absent for the birth ...
Mar 27, 2014 · In Geneva, it became clear that not only was Lord Byron mortified at the thought of being pursued by this ‘odd-headed girl’, but that Claire was also carrying his child. Unable to shift the blame onto Shelley, he insisted on returning her to England where she was confined in Bath until the birth of her daughter, at first called Alba, but ...
Byron arrived back in England in 1811 just as his mother died. Whilst on tour he had begun work on the poem ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, a partly autobiographical account of a young man’s travels abroad. The first part of the work was published to great acclaim. Byron became famous overnight and was much sought after in Regency London ...
