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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.
Oct 19, 2012 · Born in Bath in January 1817, Allegra Byron was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont (1798-1879), the teenage stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley.
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.”
Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 - April 1822) was the out-of-wedlock child of the poet George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, after a brief affair. Originally named Alba by her mother, the two initially lived with Claire’s step-sister Mary Godwin and her husband Percy Blysshe Shelley.
Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont.
Clara Allegra Byron was born in 1817 in Bath (UK) and died in 1822 in Bagnacavallo. She was the daughter of the famous english poet Lord George Gordon Byron. She was the natural daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s stepsister.
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...
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. Michael goes to Ravenna to find out how...
BBC Radio 4 - Necessary to My Happiness, In search of Allegra, Byron's illegitimate daughter - Michael Symmons Roberts, Leonarda Pezzi and Gregory Dowling outside the convent at Bagnacavallo.
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.
