Editing Ada Lovelace (section)

===Novels and plays===

Lovelace is portrayed in [[Romulus Linney (playwright)|Romulus Linney]]'s 1977 play ''[[Childe Byron]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Klein |first=Alvin |author-link=Alvin Klein |date=13 May 1984 |title=Theatre in review: A lusty Byron in Rockland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/13/nyregion/theater-in-review-a-lusty-byron-in-rockland.html |url-access=limited |id={{ProQuest|425075032}} |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In [[Tom Stoppard]]'s 1993 play ''[[Arcadia (play)|Arcadia]]'', the precocious teenage genius Thomasina Coverly—a character "apparently based" on Ada Lovelace (the play also involves [[Lord Byron]])—comes to understand [[chaos theory]], and theorises the [[second law of thermodynamics]], before either is officially recognised.<ref name="newyorker13">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/tom-stoppards-arcadia-at-twenty |title=Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia,' at Twenty |first=Brad |last=Leithauser |date=8 August 2013 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tomw.net.au/arcadia.txt Profile], Gale Edwards, 1994, Director of "Arcadia" for the Sydney Theatre Company</ref>

In the 1990 [[steampunk]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' by [[William Gibson]] and [[Bruce Sterling]],<ref>{{cite book |contribution=The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics |first=Sadie|last=Plant |pages=45–64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXU5aoJL0-QC&pg=PA45 |title=Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment |editor1-first=Mike |editor1-last=Featherstone |editor2-first=Roger |editor2-last=Burrows |publisher=SAGE Publications, in association with Theory, Culture & Society, School of Human Studies, University of Teesside |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-84860-914-3}}</ref> Lovelace delivers a lecture on the "punched cards" programme which proves [[Gödel's incompleteness theorems]] decades before their actual discovery. Lovelace and [[Mary Shelley]] as teenagers are the central characters in [[Jordan Stratford]]'s steampunk series, ''The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moyer |first1=Edward |title=Can Jane Austen + steampunk spark girls' science fire? |url=https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/can-jane-austen-steampunk-spark-girls-science-fire/ |access-date=26 February 2017 |date=13 April 2012}}</ref>

Lovelace features in [[John Crowley (author)|John Crowley]]'s 2005 novel, ''Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land'', as an unseen character whose personality is forcefully depicted in her annotations and anti-heroic efforts to archive her father's lost novel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Byron's heir |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-05-bk-straub5-story.html |first=Peter |last=Straub |author-link=Peter Straub |date=5 June 2005 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110092446/https://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/05/books/bk-straub5 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The 2015 play ''Ada and the Engine'' by [[Lauren Gunderson]] portrays Lovelace and Charles Babbage in unrequited love, and it imagines a post-death meeting between Lovelace and her father.<ref name="kqed">{{cite web |url=http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/ada-and-the-memory-engine/ |title=Ada and the Memory Engine |first= Sam |last=Hurwitt |publisher=KQED |archive-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906141059/https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/ada-and-the-memory-engine/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="sfweekly">{{cite web |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/10/22/ada-and-the-memory-engine-love-by-the-numbers |title=Ada and the Memory Engine: Love by the Numbers |work=[[SF Weekly]] |date=22 October 2015 |access-date=14 November 2015 |author=Costello, Elizabeth |archive-date=6 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406052014/http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/10/22/ada-and-the-memory-engine-love-by-the-numbers |url-status=dead }}</ref> Lovelace and Babbage are also the main characters in [[Sydney Padua]]'s webcomic and graphic novel ''[[The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage]]''. The comic features extensive footnotes on the history of Ada Lovelace, and many lines of dialogue are drawn from actual correspondence.<ref>{{cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |title=Comic about Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage |url=http://boingboing.net/2009/10/05/comic-about-ada-love.html |website=BoingBoing |access-date=10 October 2014 |date=5 October 2009}}</ref>