Mrs Elisabeth Werry (nee Disney)

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Mrs Elisabeth Werry (nee Disney)

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

wife of the English=Consul at Smyrna

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

Type

Person

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824; 1809-1811

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Birth Date

1762

Death Date

1846 at Smyrna

Occupation

wife of the English-Consul at Smyrna

Biographical Text

Byron to FrWerry 1810-12-10. "Byron and Hobhouse stayed for more than a month with Werry, British Consul-General in Smyrna, on their way to Constantinople. (See Marchand, Vol I, pp. 234-68). When they left, Mrs. Werry cut off a lock of Byron's hair. Hobhouse wrote: 'II saw her cry at parting __ pretty well at 56 years at least'." BLJ XI-177n

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https://www.findagrave.com/34515538

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Paul M Curtis, “Mrs Elisabeth Werry (nee Disney),” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 27, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/577.

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