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Augusta Leigh

 

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Annabella Milbanke : [letter to Byron]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said that to me (the decisive one ) [ie accepting his marriage proposal] was the best & prettiest she ever read ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Manuscript: Letter

  

Leigh Hunt : The Story of Rimini

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      

  

George Gordon Lord Byron : travel journal

Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta, which she copied and let Murray see.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Manuscript: Codex

  

Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]

'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Walter Scott : Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I received two days ago, I cannot express myself better than in the words of my sister Augusta, who (speaking of it) says, that it is written in a spirit "of the most feeling and kind nature."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Print: Serial / periodical

  

 : Edinburgh Review

Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand thanks for your kindness in lending it to me. It will surely please him (Byron) whom it most concerns.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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