Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Lady Milbanke to Lady Byron, 2 August 1818
“Lady Calthorpe has a letter from her
Daughter written at Venice, where she has seen Lord Byron.
You may imagine in what terms she speaks of him—
“the only new particular is, that he has quarrelled with and dismissed the
married lady, and supplied her place, by a Girl of sixteen—
“I conclude you have heard that his black-haired Daughter is sent to him at Venice—
“but no more on such a polluted subject—I will begin with some other on a
Virgin Page—”
Allegra Byron (1817-1822)
Byron's illegitimate daughter by Claire Clairmont.
Lady Frances Gough-Calthorpe [née Carpenter] (1761-1827)
The daughter of General Benjamin Carpenter; in 1783 she married Henry Gough-Calthorpe,
first Baron Calthorpe. She had five sons and one daughter, Frances-Elizabeth.
Teresa Guiccioli (1800-1873)
Byron's lover, who in 1818 married Alessandro Guiccioli. She composed a memoir of Byron,
Lord Byron,
Jugé par les Témoines de sa Vie (1868).