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LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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 ascending	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriette Wilson	Some months before her twentieth birthday, HW fell in love at first sight with Lord John Ponsonby (a relation of the famous Duchess of Devonshire and cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb ), who became second...
Textual Features	Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson	The tales are The Bandit of Florence, and the Fugitive Nun and Imbecility of Mind, which is addressed to the author of Purity of Heart (that is, Elizabeth Thomas —who in this novel of...
Textual Features	Dorothy Wellesley	DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Production	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW published The Marriage of William Ashe, a novel inspired by the Romantic-era relationship between the writer Lady Caroline Lamb and her husband, William Lamb , later the prime minister Lord Melbourne. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 243 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Mary Walker	Her illegitimate grand-daughter Mary was taken back after LMW 's death by her father, Ugo Foscolo , who had settled in London, where he had arrived on 11 September 1816. Mary brought him the...
Publishing	Elizabeth Thomas	With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb . Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 438
Reception	Elizabeth Thomas	Lady Caroline Lamb read this novel while working on her own Glenarvon. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Douglas, Lamb 171
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Thomas	Thomas calls her Caroline Lamb character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas 's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Thomas	Lady Caroline Lamb felt, she said, relieved that ET had not succeeded in turning her into ridicule, since she had less idea even of common humour—& liveliness than any one I ever met with. She...
Reception	Elizabeth Thomas	In the preface to her next volume Elizabeth Thomas answered in some detail the attack from the European Magazine. She explained something of her rank in life and her political views, in response to...
Education	Elizabeth Taylor	Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 When Betty was eleven...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Isabella Spence	During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...
Textual Production	Naomi Royde-Smith	NRS dedicated her work to Florence Mary Parsons (calling her, with formal correctness, Mrs. Clement Parsons), author of the twenty-five-year-old definitive biography of Siddons. People she acknowledges include her husband (for advice about old...
Occupation	Frances Arabella Rowden	On leaving the St Quintins' school FAR became a governess. Her employers included, for several years, Lord Bessborough (one of whose children was the future Lady Caroline Lamb ). Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 1: 21
Occupation	Frances Arabella Rowden	FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...

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.