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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.
Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.
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.”
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont.
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.
Necessary to My Happiness In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter. Michael Symmons Roberts travels to Ravenna, Italy and Harrow, Middlesex. Gallery. 5/5.
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 ...
Jan 22, 2012 · Byron had placed his daughter Allegra in a convent school in Bagnacavallo in March 1821; on April 20, 1822 she died there at the age of five, after a brief illness. Following Byron’s instructions, she was buried in Harrow Church.
