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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.
Jul 9, 2024 · 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 ...
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...
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...
Aug 10, 2015 · The story of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter, who haunted her father's imagination.
In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter. Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex.
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...
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...
Nov 12, 2018 · Claire Clairmont, having courageously decided to bring up Clara Allegra, her illegitimate child by Byron, as part of Percy Shelley’s bohemian household, was granted less respect.
