In the history of English letters, men who have found success as writers seem to have a much spottier track record as fathers.
The Romantic poet Lord Byron's rakish ways led his only legitimate daughter, Ada, to be raised with a mathematics and sciences education - her mother did not want her following in her profligate father's footsteps. Ada Lovelace would later become the world's first computer programmer.
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