![]() ![]() This being early 19 th-century England, there were no proper schools where girls could get an education, although most of the upper class did hire tutors to guide the education of their offspring. In any event, she excelled at the subject. She also toured factories with her mother and this is most likely where her lifelong interest in inventions began.Īda was very interested in mathematics, and whether this was because her mother was somewhat of a mathematician herself, is unknown. He stated in a letter that he hoped “the gods have made her anything save poetical-it is enough to have one such fool in the family.” Lady Byron couldn’t have agreed more and kept her daughter within a strict regimen of scholarly subjects, such as foreign languages, music, and mathematics. ![]() After moving abroad, Byron seems to have taken an interest in Ada’s upbringing and even hoped that she would not be interested at all in poetry. Lord Byron never did seek custody of Ada and left for the Continent within months of her birth. ![]() Shortly after Ada’s birth, she was whisked away by her mother to her maternal grandparents in northern England and was deemed a ward in chancery. This blog was written in preparation for Ada Lovelace Day, which occurs every year on the second Tuesday of October and celebrates women in STEM.Īugusta Ada Byron, daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and intellectual Lady Byron (whom Byron once named the “Princess of Parallelograms”), was born in 1815. Oil painting of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. ![]()
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