CONTENTS

Foreword

PART ONE

1On Her Own

2Letters in Love

3The Underside of the Moon

413 Piccadilly Terrace

5Dearest Duck

PART TWO

6Denial and Isolation—Anger? Bargaining—Depression—Acceptance? Great Scott!

7Educating Ada

8Educating England

9The Half Sisters

10Intermezzo: Lady Byron Time-Travels on the Brownings’ Moon

11Attempting Amends at the White Hart

12Enduring Motherhood

PART THREE

13Strange History

14The Lost Chapter

15Lady Byron and Her Grandson

Notes

Selected Printed Sources

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

Index