Editing Ada Lovelace (section)

===Death===
[[File:Ada Lovelace in 1852.jpg|thumb|Painting of Lovelace seated at a piano, by [[Henry Wyndham Phillips|Henry Phillips]] (1852). Although in great pain at the time, she agreed to sit for the painting as her father, [[Lord Byron]], had been painted by Phillips' father, [[Thomas Phillips]].|alt=Ada Lovelace, painted portrait circa 1852]]

Lovelace died at the age of 36 on 27 November 1852<ref>{{Citation |publisher=GRO |title=Register of Deaths |contribution=December 1852 1a * MARYLEBONE&nbsp;– Augusta Ada Lovelace}}.</ref> from [[cervical cancer]] (which contemporary accounts called uterine cancer, since a distinction between the two was not made at time).{{Sfn|Baum|1986|pp=99–100}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lowy |first=Ilana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b0vgZtfspJMC&dq=ada+lovelace+cervical+cancer&pg=PP1 |title=A Woman's Disease: The History of Cervical Cancer |date=2011-11-10 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-954881-1 |language=en}}</ref> The illness lasted several months, in which time Annabella took command over whom Ada saw, and excluded all of her friends and confidants. Under her mother's influence, Ada had a religious transformation and was coaxed into repenting of her previous conduct and making Annabella her executor.{{Sfn|Woolley|1999|p=370}} She lost contact with her husband after confessing something to him on 30 August which caused him to abandon her bedside. It is not known what she told him.{{Sfn|Woolley|1999|p=369}} She was buried, at her request, next to her father at the [[Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Hucknall|Church of St. Mary Magdalene]] in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.<ref name="Nast Wolfram 2015 d713">{{cite magazine  |last=Wolfram | first=Stephen | title=Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace | magazine=WIRED | date=22 December 2015 | url=https://www.wired.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/ | access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref>