Thank you! That A/A came surprisingly easy. What I really want to read is them as academics solving an Agatha Christie-esque mystery, preferably on a train and preferably while they both wear glasses, but I don't have the time to write it.
Ada is so fascinating, you couldn't make her story up. Her mother really did everything she could to drive out any potential "Byron madness", but Ada still resembled her father in quite a few ways. She had a bit of a gambling problem and may have had some sort of mental illness, was possibly bi-polar. She tried to find a way to cure herself, which probably owes a lot to her mother.
It's such a shame she didn't live longer. She might have contributed so much more. As it was, the development of the computer didn't really take off for another 99 years.
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Date: 2011-03-15 05:15 pm (UTC)Ada is so fascinating, you couldn't make her story up. Her mother really did everything she could to drive out any potential "Byron madness", but Ada still resembled her father in quite a few ways. She had a bit of a gambling problem and may have had some sort of mental illness, was possibly bi-polar. She tried to find a way to cure herself, which probably owes a lot to her mother.
It's such a shame she didn't live longer. She might have contributed so much more. As it was, the development of the computer didn't really take off for another 99 years.