J. Constanze Smith

J. Constanze Smith

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A.K.A.
Constance Smith (née Herbert)
Gender:
Female
Places:
Holy Roman EmpireUnited Kingdom
Is:
Writer
Work field:
Literature
Birth:
1785(Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey)
Death:
21 October 1829(Vienna, Austria)
Religions:
Catholicism
Family:
Father:
Peter Philipp Herbert von Rathkeal
Spouse(s):
John Spencer Smith (11 September 1798-)
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Constance Smith, Mrs Spencer Smith (née Constanze Baronne de Herbert Rathkeal; 1785–1829) - wife of a British diplomat John Spencer Smith, known as Florence in several Byron's poems.

Daughter of baron Herbert, Austrian ambassador to Constantinople. Heroine of Marquis de Salvo's book about her escape from Napoleon and Memoirs of the Duchess D' Abrantés.

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Lord Byron fell in love with her in Malta in 1809.

  • To Florence (September 1809)
  • Lines written in an album at Malta (September 14, 1809)
  • Stanzas composed during a thunderstorm (October 11, 1809)
  • Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian gulf (November 14, 1809)
  • The spell is broke... (Athens, January 16, 1810)
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, II, xxxii-xxxiii.