![]() ![]() When Ada is introduced into London society as a highly eligible young heiress, she at last discovers the intellectual and social circles she has craved all her life. Any troubling spark of imagination-or worse yet, passion or poetry-is promptly extinguished. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada’s mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. ![]() But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. ![]() Lincoln's Dressmaker and Switchboard Soldiersilluminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace-Lord Byron’s daughter and the world’s first computer programmer. ![]() The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. ![]()
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