This was an embryonic computer project that could never be carried out. At this event Babbage presented his first model of the Analytical Engine to Ada Byron and her mother. However, Augusta Ada Byron, who would become Countess of Lovelace after she married William King, ended up managing to merge the apparently antagonistic currents that flowed through her predecessors.Īda met Charles Babbage at a party, when he had not yet married. The most widespread romantic vision of this part of Ada Lovelace's life tells us that, jilted by the womanizer that Lord Byron was, her mother tried to bury the passions of letters under grids of numbers and formulas. Her mother, whom Lord Byron affectionately called "the princess of parallelograms", made sure that she received a solid mathematical education. This was approximately the same number of years since she had seen her father. Others in Ada’s life-Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage, the great scientific mind, and Mary Somerville (who was a mentor to Ada)-felt more real to me than did Ada.When the philhellene Lord Byron died of fever in Greece, fighting for a romantic ideal, his only legitimate daughter was 8 years old. But I could never get close to her and found Ada’s voice to be monotonous, didactic and annoying. The subject of Chiaverini’s book is a marvel, and I was desperate to know who she was and why. Alas, politics and personalities get in the way, and Babbage’s dream (and Ada’s) is never realized. Ignoring skeptics and being a brilliant mathematician, Ada attempts to work with Babbage to bring his Analytical Engine to fruition. When she does, she meets Charles Babbage, scientist and inventor of the Difference Engine and then the Analytical Engine. I personally came to detest her.īut Ada is also a member of the aristocracy, and expected to make an appearance in society. Annabella surrounded Ada with tutors, governesses and overseers who simply did not tolerate anything but adherence to learning-primarily language and math, a subject in which Ada excelled from a very early age. Angry and bitter, Annabella believed that Ada was going to fall victim to her “Byron blood,” so she did everything humanly possible to weed out imagination from Ada’s life and education. Lady Byron was an extraordinarily brilliant, intellectual woman, and from the time that Ada was an infant, her sole goal was to prevent Ada from having any relationship with fantasy or fun. Her mother removed her as a newborn because of her belief that Byron was mad and likely involved in an incestuous relationship with his sister, Augusta. Born in 1815 of a disastrous marriage between the great poet and Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Augusta Ada Byron never knew her father.
The only legitimate daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, is the focus of Chiaverini’s newest novel.
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