Thanks, Gail and Bill. Ada's story is well worth telling as well, of course. However, it is now fairly well known. The thought behind this programme was of telling the story of Byron's other daughter. Iris Origo wrote a short but bery good book on Allegra back in the 1930s but otherwise she just gets mentions in biographies of Byron. Understandable, given she was only five when she died but it seemed a good idea to present a new focus on her story.
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