Anne Isabella, Lady Byron Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Anne Isabella, Lady Byron NPG D5631
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by R. Page, published by Dean & Munday
Anne Isabella Milbanke was a well-educated young woman with an interest in theology and mathematics. She was a friend of the actress Sarah Siddons, the novelist Maria Edgeworth and other members of fashionable literary society who frequented her family home. She began a correspondence with Byron in 1812 and, encouraged by her aunt Lady Melbourne, agreed to marry him in 1815. Lady Melbourne was keen to distract the poet from her daughter-in-law Lady Caroline Lamb with whom he had been... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










