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Previously on "For Those of you that Get the Horn at Tech"
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According to a quick Google search, Ada Lovelace had her honeymoon at Ashley Combe (near Minehead):
Exmoor - Ada Lovelace (exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk)
That building is now just rubble:
MSO7970 - Ashley Combe House, Porlock - The Historic Environment Record for Exmoor National Park (exmoorher.co.uk)
So, it's unlikely that anyone is renting out her old room.
I did also find a hotel in Durham with an "Ada Lovelace suite" (which I'm deliberately not linking to). However:
a) It was just named after her, and not where she spent her honeymoon.
b) It doesn't contain a 4 poster bed.
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Originally posted by Jum In The Morning View PostThought the group might be interested in this.
I have just spent the night in Ada Lovelace’s honeymoon suite.
Also the granddaughter of Lord Byron. I never knew that.
Very nice 4 poster and it should be at £249 a night!
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I have just renamed my spare bedroom the Oscar Wilde Suite. Available for just £450 per night. He definitely did live there, done extensive research.
PS Virginia Woolf did actually live within walking distance of me. Don't think I've ever met her though.
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She was Lord Byron's daughter.
Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever. Four months later, he commemorated the parting in a poem that begins, "Is thy face like thy mother's my fair child! ADA! sole daughter of my house and heart?"
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For Those of you that Get the Horn at Tech
Thought the group might be interested in this.
I have just spent the night in Ada Lovelace’s honeymoon suite.
Also the granddaughter of Lord Byron. I never knew that.
Very nice 4 poster and it should be at £249 a night!Tags: None
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