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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.”
Jul 12, 2024 · The mystery of Allegra Byron, Lord Byron’s illegitimate daughter, who died at age five in an Italian monastery, is back in the news. Recent discoveries in the monastery’s archives, presented at the 48th International Byron Conference in Missolonghi, shed new light on her fate.
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 story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination.
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...
In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter. Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex.
Byron, Allegra. POET'S DAUGHTER (ENGLAND) BORN 12 Jan 1817, Bath, Somerset - DIED 19 Apr 1822, Bagno-Cavallo, Emilia-Romagna (near Ravenna) BIRTH NAME Byron, Clara Allegra CAUSE OF DEATH typhus GRAVE LOCATION Harrow, Greater London: St. Mary's Parish Church (churchyard, presumably near the entrance of the church)
BBC Radio 4 - Necessary to My Happiness, In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter - Michael Symmons Roberts looking at a newly uncovered fresco, dating from Byron's lifetime, at...
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 ...
