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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. Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother.
1 day ago · New revelations about the burial place of Allegra Byron, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, have emerged from the archives of an Italian monastery. Allegra, who tragically passed away at the age of five in 1822 due to an epidemic, was initially interred at the nunnery of Bagnacavallo near Ravenna. Lord Byron had ...
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont.
Jun 22, 2024 · The first biography of Claire Clairmont, Claire Clairmont: Mother of Byron’s Allegra, published in 1939, was unsentimental about its subject’s relevance. Clairmont was indeed the mother of Lord...
Aug 10, 2015 · The poet Michael Symmons Roberts tells the story of Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, who was only five when she died in an Italian convent.
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 a...
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 daughter, overcome ...
The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination. BBC Radio 4
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. She was precisely...
Necessary to My Happiness In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter. Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex. Gallery.
