![]() ![]() ![]() Well over a hundred years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage’s unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age.During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue within ten years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron’s little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. ![]()
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