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Noble Blood

How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.813.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When Annabella Millbanke had a daughter with her husband, Lord Byron, she was terrified that their child might inherit his poetical madness. And so she steered the girl, Ada, toward math and logic, where eventually, Ada Lovelace became obsessed with the potential of computers.

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0:00.0

A small town with secrets hidden for centuries.

0:03.0

You turn up in Danville just as the town sees its first real crime in decades?

0:07.7

And a curious stranger who may be their only chance for survival.

0:11.6

I'm talking about the murder and disappearance in small town, New Hampshire.

0:14.4

What do you think?

0:15.3

This is consumed, an all new supernatural audio thriller inspired by the novel by Aaron Mankey.

0:21.9

I did not wake up this morning prepared to deal with forces beyond my understanding.

0:25.6

Please, I call that breakfast. Listen to Consumed on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:31.1

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.7

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised.

0:50.0

If you are a seasoned listener of this podcast, you might remember our episode on Vila Diadati and its inhabitants one fateful summer, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.

1:05.0

If you're an even more seasoned listener of this podcast,

1:10.0

you might remember our very early episode on Lady Caroline Lamb and the quite literally

1:17.2

fiery vengeance she orchestrated against her ex-lover Lord Byron. This is another episode that is not actually

1:26.8

about Lord Byron himself, but I'm sure he would be pleased to know we're going to

1:32.2

begin by talking about him yet again.

1:35.7

By 1815, the sixth Baron Byron had made quite the name for himself outside of his inherited title.

1:45.2

He was famous in England and across the continent for both his literary and romantic exploits.

1:53.9

It was Byromania, as dubbed by Caroline Lamb's cousin, Annabella Millbank.

2:01.6

Annabella was the daughter of a baronet and a poet herself.

2:05.0

She asked her cousin to pass along some of her work to Caroline's famous fling.

2:12.0

And when she did, Caroline's famous fling and when she did, Caroline suggested to Byron that Annabella might

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