Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was a British mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early[…]

I must here acknowledge a close, though unintentional, resemblance in these twelve lines to a passage in an unpublished poem of Mr Coleridge, called “Christabel.” It was not till after[…]

In the autumn following the much-discussed “Year Without of Summer” of 1816 in which a ghost story pact spawned the writing of Frankenstein, tragedy struck the Shelleys: Fanny Imlay, half-sister to Mary, committed suicide.