Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Lady Caroline Lamb
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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was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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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'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
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)...
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...
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. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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.
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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Lucille Iremonger
Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
EJ
published her first historical biography, that of Lady Caroline Lamb
(writer and lover of Byron
). It was the first full-length study of Lady Caroline to reach print.
By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...
Writing climate item
By July 1813
Byron
published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...
Building item
December 1825
The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole
failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.
Texts
Lamb, Lady Caroline. A New Canto. William Wright, 1819.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Gordon. T. and J. Allman, 1821.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Graham Hamilton. Henry Colburn, 1822.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. Editor Douglass, Paul, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
