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Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | Among copies sent out by the author was one for Germaine de Staël
. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 185 Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 195 |
politics | Queen Victoria | With the king close to death, Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was pressed from all political sides to align herself with an advisor and party; she chose Lord Melbourne
. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 58-9 |
politics | Queen Victoria | QV
's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics Edith, Countess of Lytton,. Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, 1895-1899. Editor Lutyens, Mary, Rupert Hart-Davis. 43 |
Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The pamphlet was not well received: the public appeared to be suffering from compassion fatigue. In opposing CN
's plan of writing to the Times, Melbourne
called her a sobbing, moaning, and complaining woman... |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo
, though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 225 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband
was helping her with revision. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 226n109 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël
visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Eden | Lady Emily Cowper (later Palmerston)
tried, at Panshanger in Hertfordshire, to match EE
with her widowed brother Lord Melbourne
. Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, p. v - xx. vii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | There also arose the question of whether the ceremony was to be public or private. Lord Melbourne
convinced QV
, despite her hesitation, that a public ceremony was the only viable option, and she was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Caroline Ponsonby
married William Lamb
(who some months after her death was to become Lord Melbourne and later again Prime Minister). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Lamb |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
, as a new MP, made his maiden speech by invitation immediately following the Speech from the Throne: LCL
attended in men's clothes in the Strangers' Gallery to hear him. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 64-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | George Norton
initiated divorce proceedings by bringing an action in the Court of Common Pleas
against Lord Melbourne
, then the Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (i.e. adultery) with CN
. Huddleston, Joan, and Caroline Norton. “Introduction”. Caroline Norton’s Defense, Academy Chicago, p. I - XIII. vii Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press. 63 Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 8 |
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