Lady Caroline Lamb

13 November 1785 - 26 January 1828

Standard Name: Lamb, Lady Caroline

Birth Name: Caroline Ponsonby

Styled: Lady Caroline Ponsonby

Nickname: Car Ponsonby

Married Name: Lady Caroline Lamb

Nickname: Caro William

Nickname: Lady Calantha Limb

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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 her affair with Byron , and her work has seldom been discussed other than in that context. Her later novels, however, move away from the personal.

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre	BBBD 's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her...
Friends, Associates	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	Their mother was living in Paris at this time, and Rosina lived in London with her uncle Sir John Doyle (latterly without her sister, who joined their mother in Paris). She reputedly had an unusual...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	Lady Caroline Lamb , a friend of both parties, seems to have encouraged the relationship at first, but then warned Rosina not to marry Edward. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Douglas, Lamb 279
Family and Intimate relationships	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton	As a very young man he had a notorious affair with Lady Caroline Lamb . Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Reception	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	Lord Melbourne offered Sydney, Lady Morgan , a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb ...
Friends, Associates	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	They had houses, or mansions, in Tyrone, in Scotland, and at Stanmore Priory near London; they treated the celebrated writer as a kind of household pet, even making fun of her nationalist...
Material Conditions of Writing	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	The first idea for this book had come to her in Italy, when she looked at Rosa's pictures in galleries, and learned that he had also been a satirist of the established political order. She...
Family and Intimate relationships	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	Lord Byron 's marriage to Annabella Milbanke was at least in part engineered by Lady Melbourne , mother-in-law of Lady Caroline Lamb . Annabella had refused Byron once before she accepted him. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 128-30, 134-5
Family and Intimate relationships	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	Apart from Byron's rumoured sexual relation with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh , the most notorious among his many affairs were those with Lady Caroline Lamb , Claire Clairmont , and Teresa Guiccioli . Lamb's remarkable...
death	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	At the same period EOB was a friend of another miscellaneous writer, Elizabeth Isabella Spence , who entertained in the same eccentric, low-budget style. These two elderly ladies (Spence was ten years older than Benger)...
Occupation	Mary Berry	From early in the nineteenth century, in their North Audley Street house and later in Curzon Street, MB and Agnes cultivated what might be described as a salon. At a time of fierce political disagreement...
Friends, Associates	Lady Eleanor Butler	Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Friends, Associates	Emily Eden	Lady Emily Cowper had tried to influence her brother's life before: over his marriage to the novelist Lady Caroline Lamb (who had died four years before this), and over his relationship, already begun, with another...

Timeline

By July 1813

Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.

The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.

21 (1813): 299-309

Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

150-1

December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.

Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

274

Texts

Lamb, Lady Caroline. A New Canto. William Wright, 1819.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823, 3 vols.

Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816, 3 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. 2nd ed., Henry Colburn, 1816, 3 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Gordon. T. and J. Allman, 1821.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Graham Hamilton. Henry Colburn, 1822, 2 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. Editor Douglass, Paul, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.