Other References
- Ianthe was the nickname the poet Lord Byron gave to his intimate friend, Lady Charlotte Harley, to whom Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is dedicated.
- Ianthe was also the nickname given by the poet Walter Savage Landor to Sophia Jane Swift, the love of his life whom he was never able to marry.
- Mary Saunderson was sometimes referred to as Ianthe throughout her life, due to her excellent performance of the character in The Siege of Rhodes.
- In Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Queen Mab", the fairy queen visits a character named Ianthe. The fairy then takes the soul of the sleeping Ianthe and leads it across existence and uses the soul to highlight the good and pure in mankind. Shelley uses this to illustrate the evil in man's nature. Shelley also named his eldest daughter with Harriet Westbrook, Eliza Ianthe (born June 23, 1813).
- Ianthe was the love interest of the main character in John William Polidori's The Vampyre.
- Ianthe is the name of the main belt asteroid 98 Ianthe.
- Ianthe is also the name of a fictional city in the nation of Ophir (see also Hyborian Age, Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard)
The name is pronounced I-AN-THEE.
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