Lady Byron Lady Byron Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron ("née" Milbanke; 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860), nicknamed Annabella and commonly known as Lady Byron, was the wife of poet George Gordon Byron, more commonly known as Lord Byron. A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron’s reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about an alleged incest Lord Byron had with his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's
Lord Byron in popular culture a character refers to Lord Byron’s promiscuity: ‘I think, beneath that English exterior throbs a passion that would make Lord Byron look like a tobacconist.’ Byron appears as an immortal, still living in modern times, in the television show "" in the fifth-season episode "The Modern Prometheus", living as a decadent rock star. Television portrayals include a 2003 BBC drama on Byron's life, an appearance in the 2006 BBC drama, "", and minor appearances in "" (as well as the Shelleys), "Blackadder the Third", episode 60 (Darkling) of "", and was also parodied in the animated sketch series, Monkey Dust.