Was Medora Leigh Byrons illegitimate daughter?
Augusta Mary Byron Leigh, was the wife of her cousin, Colonel George Leigh. She was Byron’s older half sister, as her mother had died and their father remarried. Her husband’s mother, Frances Byron Leigh had been very close to her brother, Jack Byron, the poet’s father. It has been argued that they had had an earlier incestuous relationship, but it is unlikely that Byron, his sister or her husband knew about it, if it had occurred. George Leigh may have been a half-brother also!!!! The poet’s mother, however, who raised him in Scotland, had very little contact with the Byrons until her son inherited the Barony in 1798. Augusta, orphaned in 1791, was brought up by her mother’s family and did not really meet Byron until they were both adults. He corresponded with her on very affectionate terms when he was a teenager until he asked her to co-sign a loan to cover his extravagant lifestyle. She refused, and he became very angry with her. In 1813, he was a feted and famous poet. Augusta’s hu
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