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was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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.
She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
(aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle.
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T. Bensley, 1801.
She explained its genesis in an advertisement (dated 23 May...
Publishing
Frances Arabella Rowden
It has a curious emblematic frontispiece done by Rowden's former pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
, which shows Superstition, terrified at the annihilation of the Pagan Deities, being directed by an Angel of Light to turn...
Textual Production
Frances Arabella Rowden
It is dedicated to Sir John Aubrey
of Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, a Tory baronet and member of parliament, with praise for his integrity of principle and spirit of patriotism and for his private or domestic...
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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In 1802, in London and...
Education
Mary Russell Mitford
On a visit to London in June 1814, MRM
returned to the school, attended its prize-giving, and heard a work of her own, The March of Mind, recited. She was to have presented the...
Education
L. E. L.
This school was advanced for its time, and had educated women such as Mary Russell Mitford
and Lady Caroline Lamb
. Rowden was herself a writer. While there, LEL learned a great deal of French...
Friends, Associates
L. E. L.
By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts
and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure...
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.
In 2010 Contemporary Authors, inexplicably...
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...
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...
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...
