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Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont. [1] Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother.
Aug 11, 2017 · Byron composed a eulogy to be carved on a marble tablet inside the church door, commemorating “the memory of Allegra, daughter of George Gordon Lord Byron” and quoting a verse from Samuel: “I shall go to her but she shall not return to me.”
Jun 22, 2024 · Clairmont was indeed the mother of Lord Byron’s Allegra, the least notable of his daughters. The poet was also father to the early computing pioneer Ada Lovelace and, allegedly, to a daughter...
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 ...
Outside the door of the convent at Bagnacavallo where Allegra Byron died aged five Michael Symmons Roberts looking at a newly uncovered fresco, dating from Byron's lifetime, at the Palazzo...
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont.
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...
Byron, who loved her, admitted that death was kind. “Her position in the world would scarcely have allowed her to be happy,” he said, pitying remorsefully the “sinless child of sin, ” so ...
Aug 10, 2015 · The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination.
Necessary to My Happiness In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter. Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex. Gallery. 5/5.
