Research - Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician who has been referred to as the first computer programmer because of a program she created for a prototype of a digital computer. 
Lovelace was a lady born to Lord Byron, a famed poet and her mother Annabella Milbanke Byron who just 2 months after her birth separated. Her high status meant she was given a private education by tutors, and also received help with her self education in her advanced studies by a mathematician. 

Charles Babbage's Analytic engine 

Womens fashion of the 1840's

Ada was the daughter of a Baron and was married to an earl, which meant she was very much part of the upper class. Her work on the first computer program also took place in 1843 so I wanted to focus my research on the upper class women of this time.

The upper class took fashion very seriously as it could tell you a lot about a person. What was consider acceptable depended on the situation such as whether it was daytime or the evening, or if one was in their home or out in public. A lady would not wear an evening gown in the daytime, and she would not leave the house without a bonnet and coat.