To prevent any of Byron’s excesses in his daughter, Ada is forbidden to read poetry, or imaginative fiction, or indulge in creative play. Are codified mourning clothes not enough for you?Īnyway, a lot of the this story is devoted to Ada’s upbringing. COME ON ANNABELLA, you’re slipping into creepy gothicism. On one hand, yes, I definitely have some ticket stubs for sentimental value, so Romantic-era me would totally have a secret locket with a lock of hair, but on the other hand, no fair covering up a portrait with black crepe and then freaking out when people mention it.

This story has some Romantic drama, with wild twists of fortune hinging on archaic inheritance laws, and the melodramatic custom of sending and keeping locks of hair, for example. There are so many wild stories about Byron, who was completely incapable of keeping it in his pants OR keeping his mouth shut afterwards. As Ada’s mother tries to shield her from Byron’s excesses, I was made even more curious. The story begins before Ada’s birth, with the tumultuous courtship and marriage of her parents. Unveils the passions, dreams, and insatiable thirst for knowledge of a largely unheralded pioneer in computing-a young woman who stepped out of her father's shadow to achieve her own laurels and champion the new technology that would shape the future.Enchantress of Numbers is a wonderful novel about the life of Ada Lovelace.

Little does she realize how her exciting new friendship with Charles Babbage-the brilliant, charming, and occasionally curmudgeonly inventor of an extraordinary machine, the Difference Engine-will define her destiny. When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Any troubling spark of imagination-or worse yet, passion or poetry-is promptly extinguished. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science.

But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace-Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer programmer. By Jennifer nsider yourself quite fortunate indeed.Chiaverini makes a convincing case that Ada Byron King is a woman worth celebrating.'

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