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A bit more on Byron's feelings regarding Ada- 'the tears of her maturity shall be mine!'. Thanks for the supervillain dialogue, Byron!
Whaaat? 14 year old Ada writes a play performed in the Victoria Theater, a 'wild dramatic romance'.
Just in case you're dying to know what Ada wore at court. White satin, apparently.
Lord Byron on Ada, and letting Lady Byron control her education
!! "It is said that Ada Byron, sole daughter of the 'noble bard', is the most coarse and vulgar woman in England!' Details, New York Mirror! You can't just leave it there!
Of the genre of journalism so full of inside jokes, sarcasms, and allusions that 200 years later I have no idea what they are trying to say. Ada Lovelace was such a fine harp player because of the cowardice of her fair instructress nudge nudge wink wink where are you going with this 1830s guy?
A passing phrenology notes the skull of 18 year old Ada Lovelace.
Hah! No doubt Byron will always be trying to work on Little Ada's mind by his writings. Someone else who never saw a finer child than her.
For some reason I'm delighted to see the mathematical accomplishments of Lady Lovelace noted here in a 1884 seemingly unconnected string of curiosities, along with engineering orioles and honeybee venom.
Charming reminiscence on Babbage in the year of his death by the Statistical Society, with a special mention of Lady Lovelace. "And if an analytical machine be ever at work-- as it will be-- in this age, it will be due in no small degree to a young and beautiful woman"
England's smallest church, included here because it was the one Lovelace went to. It is still there, and still delightful, you can sit in the very pew Lady Lovelace did. Very much worth a trip out to Porlock; you can also wander a bit through the ruins of Ashley Combe house, where Lovelace and Babbage walked about and talked of calculating machines.
I think I have this somewhere else but it's pretty priceless so here it is again. Spendid collection of Babbage and Lovelace anecdotes.
Another description of Lovelace before her marriage as 'simple' (artless I suppose)- "hateth the city and the gay world."
At least one person thinks Lovelace looked more like Byron than like her mother.
Lady Lovelace, annoyed at being stared at at the Unitarian Church
Never let it be said that a stone is left unturned in this list of documents. Lady Lovelace's toothpaste recipe.
Mary Sommerville's autobiography, with a little mention of guiding Ada towards mathematics.
Okay, wow, not sure if this counts as a primary document but it's certainly worthy of note.. a Medium speaks in the voice of Ada Lovealce regarding the slanders on Lord Byron, 1882. Some unexpected and so very Victorian aftermath of the Harriet Beecher Stowe pamphlet.
Menabrea on Lovelace!
"May these papers that I unearth at the end of my career, encourage the completion of a work that will be precious for science and a triumph for the mechanical art; and at the same time a homage made to the memory of a man of genius, as well as to that of a noble lady who, by her example, showed that the more beautiful half of humanity can have, in the highest sciences, skills equal to those of the other half, who so modestly call themselves the stronger sex!"
Another French one.. "One does not know how to imagine a more singular contrast than that offered by this daughter of a poet applying herself to the exact and arduous science of calculating machines."
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