![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She found opium and a book by Marquis de Sade, after whom the phenomenon of sadism was named, in his room.Īnnabella left her husband when Ada was seven weeks old. A logical thinker, Annabella tried to find a scientific reason and remedy for his behavior. But since he did not beat or confine his wife she had no legal right to object to his conduct. Byron was “one of the few people… whose intellectual powers equaled her own.”Īs a husband, Lord Byron continued to stay out all night, drink heavily, and consort with actresses. She was also concerned with the working conditions, wages and humane treatment of the poor. She was a royal-blood heiress and daughter of the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne’s first cousin.Ī prodigy in mathematics, science, and languages, she kept abreast with technical advancements and later founded industrial schools. Her parents, Lord Byron and Annabella, “were an unlikely pair, the passionate, headstrong, irreverent poet and the prim young woman for whom virtue, reason, and self-control were guiding principles.” He had the reputation of genius, romantic, immoral, depraved, revered. She was Ada Byron, Lord Byron’s only legitimate child – some say that was enough to destine her to trail blaze. 2017 First Computer Programmer Is Born!Įnchantress of Numbers is an illuminating tribute to the visionary who 200 years ago wrote the first computer program and who foresaw our computer age. Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace, by Jennifer Chiaverini. ![]()
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