Cultural References
Ada Lovelace has been portrayed in the film Conceiving Ada, the steam punk novel The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, and Sydney Padua's webcomic 2D Goggles. In John Crowley's novel Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, Ada is featured as an unseen character whose personality is forcefully depicted in her annotations and anti-heroic efforts to archive her father's lost novel.
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