Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of they Byron Controversy, from Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time

Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition, second state (BAL 19456). Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1870 Hard Cover. 482 pp. A biographical account of Lady Byron by the American author best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was an English mathematician and the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron. A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron's reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about an alleged incest Lord Byron had with his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's intentions to leave England and return to the Mediterranean where he had lived in 1810. Their daughter Ada worked as a mathematician with Charles Babbage, the pioneer of computer science. Lady Byron had felt that an education in mathematics and logic would counteract any possible inherited tendency towards Lord Byron's perceived insanity and romantic excess.