George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron

LCL met with Byron 's funeral cortege (by accident, she said) on its way from London to Newstead; she never really recovered from the breakdown brought on by this encounter.

William Lamb worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...

LCL died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan her portrait of Byron and some of his letters.

This is a rollicking, fizzing, flighty, purposely excessive poem. It parodies yet also hitches a lift on Byron 's own whimsical style. Impersonating the male poet who lambasts Our maudlin, hey-down-derrified pathetic frees Lamb...

LCL read an advance copy of the early cantos of Byron 's Childe Harold, and wrote a poem expressing her wish to emulate him.

The British Library Catalogue lists this work under Byron , not Lamb. She paid for its publication, and sent copies to friends and reviewing journals. Her aims here as she described them were at...

LCL anonymously published A New Canto to satirize Byron 's Don Juan (of which only two cantos were so far in print).

An odd spin-off from LCL 's desire to make herself into a professional writer was her project for a pocket diary or almanac. These ephemeral publications were repositories of useful information of many kinds as...

LCL published another satire on Byron 's writing: Gordon, A Tale, A Poetical Review of Don Juan, in two cantos.

From the date of Byron's death, LCL lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin , whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an...

Just after Byron 's death, LCL confirmed Isaac Nathan 's exclusive right to set her songs to music.

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry. Some of her satirical poems were published. She wrote her first novel as a personal testament and retaliation after...

As an adult, she became increasingly promiscuous. Her conduct in her affair with Byron (who was at first dazzled by and obsessed with her, later implacably hostile in principle, though capable of softening when he...

LCL fell in love with Byron , she said, after reading his Childe Harold: I read it, and that was enough. When first brought face to face with him at a social gathering, she...

At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...