Augusta Ada Byron was born in London December 10, 1815. She was a child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron and her mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron. Augusta’s parents didn’t quite have the happiest marriage. They separated two weeks after her birth. Lord Byron left England a few months later and Augusta never saw her father again, he died in war when she was eight years old.
Growing up was full of demands for Augusta. Anne (Augusta’s mom) insisted tutors to teach her daughter (Augusta) Math, Music, French, and Science, those subjects were stimulated and not standard for women at the time. Augusta’s mom insisted her daughter to learn those stimulated subjects because it prevented her from getting her father’s attitude. Augusta was also told to lie still for periods of time to teach her self-control. Basically, Anne wanted high quality education for her daughter.
At age 8, Augusta was building detailed model boats. Age 13, she made a design for a machine that could fly. At the same time she was a talented young girl. Augusta was a musician, and made efforts in learning how to play piano, violin, and harp, and had a passion for dancing, gymnastics, and riding.…show more content… Anne showed very little affection to her daughter. She always wanted Augusta to work hard. If Augusta didn’t work hard enough her mom would punish her with periods of isolation. Anne wanted her daughter to become highly disciplined and a serious person - the opposite of her father, all Anne wanted Augusta to be the opposite of her father. Because of the huge intentions of the mother preventing her daughter to turn into her father she showed little to no affection and contact with her daughter. The maternal grandmother was the person the share what Augusta’s mom couldn’t give to her daughter but only until the grandmother
