Allegra Byron Allegra Byron Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother. At first she lived with her mother, her mother's stepsister, Mary Shelley, and Mary's husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. When she was fifteen months old, she was turned over to Byron, who changed her name to Allegra. Byron placed her with foster families and later in a Roman Catholic convent, where she died at age five of typhus or
Lord Byron in popular culture Byron "(1949) starred Dennis Price as the poet in a sanitised biopic of his life. Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley are portrayed in Roger Corman's final film "Frankenstein Unbound", where the time traveller Dr. Buchanan (played by John Hurt) meets them as well as Victor von Frankenstein (played by Raúl Juliá). The brief prologue to "Bride of Frankenstein" includes Gavin Gordon as Byron, begging Mary Shelley to tell the rest of her Frankenstein story. The events featuring the Shelleys' and Byron's relationship at the house beside Lake Geneva in 1816 have been fictionalised in film at least three times. Byron's