Lydia White

(d. 1827)

LBT ID: LyWhite1827	DIED: 1827-01
SOURCES: Prothero, Byron's Letters and Journals (1898-1901); William Prideaux Courtney, Eight Friends of the Great (1910)
Born in Wales, the “Miss Diddle” of Byron's “Blues” held literary conversazione at her house in Park Street; Walter Scott and Samuel Rogers were among her admirers.
REFERENCES TO Lydia White: Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 19 January 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Lady Louisa Stuart, 16 June 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 June 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron and his chroniclers Found 1: ¶ 3 Sir Thomas Charles Morgan to Lady Morgan, 29 May 1826 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 6 Life of Byron: 1818 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. X.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 39 (September 1833) 33-46 Found 1: ¶ 5 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1806-08 Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter XI 1826 Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 51 Chapter I 1826-27 Found 1: ¶ 4 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 2: ¶ 140 ¶ 141 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XV Found 5: ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Found 4: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 1 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VII. Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 14 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1822-24. Found 1: ¶ 22 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 2