Leigh, Augusta 1784-1851

Overview

Works:	74 works in 117 publications in 2 languages and 3,956 library holdings
Genres:	Biography History Records and correspondence Musical settings Sources Archives Poetry
Roles:	Author, Recipient
Classifications:	PR4382, 821.7

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Augusta Leigh

My dearest Augusta; a biography of Augusta Leigh, Lord Byron's half-sister by Peter Gunn( Book )
Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh by John Stewart Chapman( Book )
Passion by Jude Morgan( Book )
A quiet adjustment : a novel by Benjamin Markovits( Book )
The kindness of sisters : Annabella Milbanke and the destruction of the Byrons by David Crane( Book )

Astarte : a fragment of truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron by Ralph Milbanke Lovelace( Book )
My sister, my love by Lucille Iremonger( Book )
Augusta Leigh : Byron's half-sister: a biography by Michael Bakewell( Book )
Diary and notebook by Jane Roberts( )
Die Löwin von Aquitanien : Roman by Tanja Kinkel( Book )
Who was Fletcher? by Jacqueline Voignier-Marshall( Book )
Lord Byron's marriage; the evidence of asterisks by G. Wilson Knight( Book )
The shade of Byron : a mock heroic poem, containing strange revelations not hitherto disclosed, with copious notes and references, political, social, theological, moral, sicentific, and astronomical( Book )
Catherine Turney papers by Catherine Turney( )
George Gordon, Lord Byron, letter and memorabilia by George Gordon Byron Byron( )
Controlling history : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Byron controversy by Paul Eric Sogge( )
Byronana collection( )
Georgiana Augusta Trevanion manuscript material by Georgiana Augusta Trevanion( )
Emily Leigh manuscript material : 1 item by Emily Leigh( )
Qui était Fletcher? by Jacqueline Voignier-Marshall( Book )

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Most widely held works by Augusta Leigh

Unrevealed : Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh : for baritone and string quartet by Aribert Reimann( )

1 edition published in 1981 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs : some authentic records of certain circumstances in the lives of Augusta Leigh, and others of her family, that concerned Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, in the course of forty years after her separation ... Strictly private by Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron( Book )

1 edition published in 1887 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lord Byron's illness and death by William Fletcher( Book )

1 edition published in 1920 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem, containing strange revelations not hitherto disclosed, with copious notes and references ... A preface, with the author's comments on the so-called true "Story," by Mrs. Stowe. And a repudiation of the charges hurled against the memory of Lord Byron and his beloved sister, Ada Augusta. (Second edition.) by George Gordon Byron Byron( Book )

2 editions published in 1871 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

My dearest Augusta; a biography of Augusta Leigh, Lord Byron's half-sister by Peter Gunn( Book )

3 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Unrevealed : Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh : für Bariton und Streichquartett = for baritone and string quartet by Aribert Reimann( )

3 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reimann, A.: Unrevealed( )

in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs: some authentic records of certain circumstances in the lives of Augusta Leigh, and others of her family, that concerned Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, in the course of forty years after her separation. [Edited and annotated by R.G.N. Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace.] by Ralph Gordon Noel MILBANKE( Book )

1 edition published in 1887 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Augusta Leigh : Byron's half-sister: a biography by Michael Bakewell( Book )

1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Augusta Leigh was the child of one of the most notorious scandals of late 18th-century England, and scandal of one kind and another pursued her for the rest of her life - not least her affair with her half-brother Lord Byron. This biography draws upon new material from archives countrywide

"Sigh no more ladies" by R. J. S Stevens( )

1 edition published in 1800 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"St. J. Palace" to Col. Wildman by Augusta Leigh( )

1 edition published in 1830 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Hastings, to "my dearest A[ugusta] by Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron( )

1 edition published in 1823 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Reporting, at length and in detail, on the health, disposition and education of Ada

Augusta Leigh's album book holograph by Augusta Leigh( )

1 edition published in 1958 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

London, to J. Holmes by Augusta Leigh( )

1 edition published in 1829 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Asking if he would lend her his portrait of Colonel Anson in order that she might show it to a prospective Sitter

"Holly Bush" to Col. Wildman by Augusta Leigh( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Apologizing for appearing ungrateful "when we parted - I could not utter a word of the gratitude I felt & I must ever feel, for your & Mrs. Wildman's kindness and of the gratification I had experienced in being permitted to see dear Newstead once more - & to see it in such hands! it is impossible for me to express even now my feelings on that point - but I am sure you will understand the sort of happiness which it gives me to see a place I am so stoutly(?) attached to valued venerated & restored to my hearts content."

Letter to John Murray by Augusta Leigh( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Refers to a ghost story in the Byron Family, and of the ghost's appearance to Julia Byron

The castled crag of Drachenfels : "written on the banks of the Rhine," by George Gordon Byron Byron( )

1 edition published in 1816 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Harry S. Dickey collection of Byroniana by Harry Stanley Dickey( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Harry S. Dickey was a Baltimore business man and collector, who was born in 1891 and received his B.A. degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1912. Dickey an admirer of the English poet, Lord Byron. This collection is composed of handwritten letters and poems relating to Byron, as well as published or printed sheet music, engravings, and article clippings. Notably, there are a few handwritten Oscar Wilde letters and poems, as Dickey was a collector of Wilde as well. The collection spans from 1815 to 1959, and 1981

Newspaper clippings on Byron and Byronana( )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

A collection of six clippings, removed from the album of Byronana which also formerly housed Byron's 30 April 1814 autograph letter to Clio Rickman (B 0186), along with several other Byron-related manuscripts and printed material. Included here are: a report on Byron's last speech in the House of Lords, from The St. James's Chronicle (3 Jun 1813); a review of Thomas Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, from the St. James's Chronicle (Jan 1830); three short clippings on Mary Ann Chaworth [married name Musters], relating to her death, funeral, and surviving cousin (Miss Rudford), from unidentified sources (2 dated in manuscript Feb 1832); and "A Hitherto Unpublished Letter by Count Pietro Gamba ..." to Augusta Leigh, dated 17 Aug 1824, from New-York Daily Tribune (22 Apr 1899)

Papers by George Gordon Byron Byron( )

in German and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Consists of letters, documents, drawings and prints of and related to Lord George Gordon Noël Byron, 1788-1824, poet. The collection was originally formed by Edward Whittaker Hennell who had the materials mounted and bound by Zaehnsdorf in October 1891. The volume was disbound in 1988

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