Augusta Leigh was the child of one of the most sensational scandals to hit Georgian England - the seduction of the wilful and beautiful Marchioness of Carmarthen by 'Mad Jack' Byron - and scandal, of one kind or another, was to pursue Augusta for the rest of her life and even beyond the grave. Her marriage to her cousin, equerry and companion of the Prince of Wales, Colonel George Leigh, who fell from grace when it came to light that he had cheated the Prince over the sale of a horse and fiddled regimental accounts to fund his gambling habit, brought her nothing but poverty and seven children. Her love affair with her half-brother, Lord Byron, was largely responsible for his separation from his wife and his subsequent exile. Lady Byron, determined that Augusta's incestuous liaison should not go unpunished, waged a relentless war of attrition against her, in which Augusta's daughter, Elizabeth Medora, also became entangled. This is the first biography of Augusta Leigh for over thirty years, and draws on a wealth of new material from archives all over the country. It sheds new light not only on this remarkable and courageous woman, but on Georgian and Regency society and the life of the Court.

Contents: [1] The expanding industry. Regulatory and political constraints and their effects on liner shipping -- US regulation of international intermodal ocean cargo movements -- United States liner shipping policy: a call to reason -- Economic constraints on containerisation, co-operation and the future. [2] Comecon countries. Prospects for the development up to 1985 of container transportation between the USSR and Comecon countries -- The development of the Trans-Siberian Railroad for container transportation. [3] Container operations in developing countries. A viewpoint from India -- A Wet African viewpoint -- A South American viewpoint. [4] The future role of container leasing. [5] Container fleet tracing and computers. [6] Container life. The causes of damage to containers and ways in which damage can be prevented -- Box life evaluation study -- Corrosion in containers - causes and prevention -- Optimal paint systems for containers. [7] Cargo care (perishable commodities). Developments in the transport of perishables -- Progress in the containerised transport of perishables. [8] Cargo care (hazardous cargoes). The viewpoint of a shipper -- The deep sea operator and the carriage of dangerous goods -- Freight container traffic - carriage of dangerous goods. [9] Shipboard control and lashing techniques. [10] Regulation. The relationship between standardisation and regulation as they affect containerisation -- Container standards and the convention on international multimodal transport -- A viewpoint from the Netherlands -- A Cuban viewpoint -- The responsibilities and activities of IMCO as they relate to containerisation. [11] The International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC). Implementation of CSC in West German - a container owner's viewpoint -- US views with respect to CSC -- Implementation of CSC in the UK -- The CSC and the control of containers in Japan under Japanese regulations.

Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know – or think we know – about one of the most important periods in literary history. Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that correct and clarify several of the commonly-held myths about the key figures of this era Corrects some of the biases and beliefs about the Romantics that have crept into the 21st-century zeitgeist – for example that they were a bunch of drug-addled atheists who believed in free love; that Blake was a madman; and that Wordsworth slept with his sister Celebrates several of the mythic objects, characters, and ideas that have passed down from the Romantics into contemporary culture – from Blake’s Jerusalem and Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn to the literary genre of the vampire Engagingly written to provide readers with a fun yet scholarly introduction to Romanticism and key writers of the period, applying the most up-to-date scholarship to the series of myths that continue to shape our appreciation of their work

In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron’s little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage’s unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age.During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue; within ten years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a hundred years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations both of his wife and his daughter.