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Ada and the Engine (2015) |
 | Lauren Gunderson |
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For Lauren Gunderson, whose plays all seem to be about emotionally potent mathematical subjects, a study of Ada Lovelace seems like a natural choice. Born Ada Byron (the daughter of the scandalous poet... (more) |
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Ada's Room (2023) |
 | Sharon Dodo Otoo |
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This novel follows a woman's soul through four reincarnations, beginning in Africa in the 15th century and ending in Europe during World War II. All four are named "Ada", and one of them happens to be... (more) |
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Babbage (2008) |
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| Claire Barker (writer-director) / Eamon Wyse (writer) |
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A 2010 movie sponsored by the British Council and directed by Claire Barker. It is a short, 15-minute vignette, a dramatization of a fictional dinner conversation between Charles Babbage, his religious... (more) |
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Conceiving Ada (1997) |
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| Lynn Hershman-Leeson
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Bizarre, low-budget film in which a female computer programmer from the 20th century accesses the memories of Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. The film... (more) |
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The Difference Engine (1991) |
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| William Gibson / Bruce Sterling |
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Two of the innovators of the cyberpunk novel -- famous for showing how messed up the future will be because of technology -- turn everything around and show us instead how great the past would have been... (more) |
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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace (2017) |
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| Jennifer Chiaverini |
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This voluminous (448 page) work of historical fiction is told in first person from the perspective of Ada Byron King (Lady Lovelace) herself. Nevertheless, as the author can count on the reader to have... (more) |
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The Fourth Quadrant (2011) |
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| Dorothy Lumley |
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The story has some elements of mathematics built in. A ransom note coded into a ciphered message broken up on paper in 4 quadrants, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, references to the Difference Engine.... (more) |
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Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (2005) |
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| John Crowley |
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This book is made up of notes and e-mail messages from a feminist historian interspersed with chapters from a previously unknown novel by Lord Byron which she has discovered while researching his daughter,... (more) |
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A Season of Flirtation (2023) |
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| Julia Justiss |
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Lady Laura Pomeroy's interest in mathematics makes her an unsuitable romantic interest in the 19th century:
Few gentlemen, himself included, could view as a prime matrimonial candidate a female who... (more) |
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Shooting the Sun (2004) |
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| Max Byrd |
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Historical mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage play supporting roles in this novel about an expedition into uncharted Indian territory to capture the first photograph of a solar eclipse at... (more) |
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (2015) |
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| Sydney Padua |
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This graphic novel starts out as a basically realistic fictionalized biography of the 19th century mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, even if it is a biography with a snarky sense of humor.... (more) |
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The Whisper of Disks (2002) |
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| John Meaney |
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I found this to be a strange story. It switches between a few time periods in the future and in the past. The present is about a young girl, Augusta - “Gus” - who develops over time into a math and... (more) |
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