Ada, Countess of Lovelace : Byron's Legitimate Daughter. - Erstausgabe

1977, ISBN: 0719533848

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[EAN: 9780719533846], [SC: 16.16], [PU: John Murray, London, first edition, 1977], BYRON, LORD. WYKBOOKS 48607 LOVELACE, ADA KING COUNTESS OF. OF 1815-1852. GEORGE GORDON BYRON BARON 1788… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780719533846], [SC: 16.16], [PU: John Murray, London, first edition, 1977], BYRON, LORD. WYKBOOKS 48607 LOVELACE, ADA KING COUNTESS OF. OF 1815-1852. GEORGE GORDON BYRON BARON 1788-1824 -- MARRIAGE. A. STUDIES. 1815-1852 BIOGRAPHY. 1788-1824. ((OF)) NEE 1800-1899 POETS, ENGLISH 19TH CENTURY MATHEMATICIANS GREAT BRITAIN FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS BIOGRAPHY COMPUTER ENGINEERS WOMEN COMPUTERS HISTORY CENTURY. CALCULATORS ENGLISH. WETENSCHAPSBEOEFENAARS. ENGLAND KING, BIOGRAPHIES OF, AUGUSTA LOVELACE NOEL 6TH BAR ON MARRIAGE NOISBN, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, [10], 5-397 pp, [12]pp of plates. From the blurb - "The drama of Byron's marriage did not end with his death in Greece but cuIminated in the life and death of his daughter Ada, of whom no biography has never appeared. The presiding shadow of Lady Byron, never relinquishing her role first as wronged wife and then as injured widow, fell across Ada’s childhood, and the rigorous disciplines, imposed under the guise of protection from an errant father capable of all wickedness, held in restraint a naturally high-spirited temperament. Besides considerable attractiveness, Ada was endowed with high mathematical and scientific ability, but her whole life was inexorably dominated by the ethos of her demanding mother, and not even her marriage at nineteen to the devoted Lord King, later first Earl of Lovelace, could entirely free her. Ada’s scientific gifts showed early, and some of her happiest experiences came from her association with Charles Babbage, founder of the modern computer. Her marriage was as successful as a marriage can be in which the husband yields his will to a rich and omnipresent mother-in-law with strong ideas about the education of his children, but the background was full of secrets and subterfuges. The young wife’s talents were misapplied to gambling on horses, leading to blackmail, estrangement from her mother and the implacable hostility of Lady Byron against her once idolized son-in-law. Using a large quantity of previously unpublished material, Mrs Moore interprets the evidence with masterly 'kill against the background of the social, intellectual and moral attitudes of the early and mid-19th century." Name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Good in used dustwrapper., Books<

1977, ISBN: 0719533848

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[EAN: 9780719533846], [SC: 4.8], [PU: John Murray, London, first edition, 1977], BYRON, LORD. WYKBOOKS 48607 LOVELACE, ADA KING COUNTESS OF. OF 1815-1852. GEORGE GORDON BYRON BARON 1788-1… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780719533846], [SC: 4.8], [PU: John Murray, London, first edition, 1977], BYRON, LORD. WYKBOOKS 48607 LOVELACE, ADA KING COUNTESS OF. OF 1815-1852. GEORGE GORDON BYRON BARON 1788-1824 -- MARRIAGE. A. STUDIES. 1815-1852 BIOGRAPHY. 1788-1824. ((OF)) NEE 1800-1899 POETS, ENGLISH 19TH CENTURY MATHEMATICIANS GREAT BRITAIN FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS BIOGRAPHY COMPUTER ENGINEERS WOMEN COMPUTERS HISTORY CENTURY. CALCULATORS ENGLISH. WETENSCHAPSBEOEFENAARS. ENGLAND KING, BIOGRAPHIES OF, AUGUSTA LOVELACE NOEL 6TH BAR ON MARRIAGE NOISBN, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, [10], 5-397 pp, [12]pp of plates. From the blurb - "The drama of Byron's marriage did not end with his death in Greece but cuIminated in the life and death of his daughter Ada, of whom no biography has never appeared. The presiding shadow of Lady Byron, never relinquishing her role first as wronged wife and then as injured widow, fell across Ada’s childhood, and the rigorous disciplines, imposed under the guise of protection from an errant father capable of all wickedness, held in restraint a naturally high-spirited temperament. Besides considerable attractiveness, Ada was endowed with high mathematical and scientific ability, but her whole life was inexorably dominated by the ethos of her demanding mother, and not even her marriage at nineteen to the devoted Lord King, later first Earl of Lovelace, could entirely free her. Ada’s scientific gifts showed early, and some of her happiest experiences came from her association with Charles Babbage, founder of the modern computer. Her marriage was as successful as a marriage can be in which the husband yields his will to a rich and omnipresent mother-in-law with strong ideas about the education of his children, but the background was full of secrets and subterfuges. The young wife’s talents were misapplied to gambling on horses, leading to blackmail, estrangement from her mother and the implacable hostility of Lady Byron against her once idolized son-in-law. Using a large quantity of previously unpublished material, Mrs Moore interprets the evidence with masterly 'kill against the background of the social, intellectual and moral attitudes of the early and mid-19th century." Name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Good in used dustwrapper., Books<