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- Annabella and he were briefly married, but when Ada was born, Byron was reportedly quite angry about the sex of the child. On a January morning in 1816, less than five weeks after Ada’s birth, Annabella quietly gathered the baby and left for her parents’ country home, moving them away from Byron and his influence.
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Mar 17, 2022 · On a January morning in 1816, less than five weeks after Ada’s birth, Annabella quietly gathered the baby and left for her parents’ country home, moving them away from Byron and his...
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Annabella started taking legal advice on leaving her husband on the day that she went into labour. The failure of the marriage and the surrounding scandal made Byron a social outcast. He died in Greece a few years later at the age of 36.
- Miranda Seymour
May 17, 2018 · A report in the New York Times upon the disgraceful character of Lord Byron’s daughter doubtless spurred Annabella’s eagerness to find naughty Ada a suitable mate and settle her into a respectable marriage.
Byron nicknamed her the “Princess of Parallelograms,” owing to her analytical mind. She was concerned about what she deemed her husband's “madness,” and after separating from him, she was determined that her daughter would not inherit the same traits.
- George Dobbs
Apr 17, 2015 · After the birth of their daughter, however, Annabella became fed up with Byron’s moods and his behavior, even wondering if he may have been mad. She separated from Byron, taking Ada with...
Oct 14, 2014 · Ada was Byron’s only daughter by his wife Annabella Milbanke, who had a passion for mathematics, and who was determined to suppress any Byron-influenced creativity in her daughter.
Nov 12, 2018 · Her mother’s reproaches struck home. Filled with remorse, Annabella vowed to change her ways. It had become, so she guiltily wrote to Sarah Siddons’s widowed daughter-in-law, Harriet, her “dearest wish to prove a better child than she [Lady Noel] has yet found me.”
