Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

She had been working on this novel at least since November 1821, when her husband was helping her with revision. This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...

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...

Lady Caroline Ponsonby married William Lamb (who some months after her death was to become Lord Melbourne and later again Prime Minister).

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.

LCL 's mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne , and sister-in-law, Lady Emily Cowper (later Palmerston) , were said to be seriously trying to end LCL 's marriage to William Lamb because of her notoriety.

MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

CN delighted in public flirtation, and from fairly early in her marriage gossip linked her name first with this man and then with that. Her long-time friendship with Lord Melbourne became closer after he had...

Meanwhile she asked her husband for a divorce; if he refused that, she hoped to negotiate a separation. But on April the first he advertised in the newspapers to announce that she had left him...

For a while after the separation CN pursued Melbourne with letters in an attempt to revive their intimacy, which in her isolation she sorely missed. He held her firmly at a distance. She accused him...

By the last wish of Melbourne , who died in November 1848, CN began receiving an allowance (probably of £200 a year) from his sister. When her mother died on 9 June 1851 she inherited...

Critic Harriet Devine Jump feels that CN 's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne contrast in tone with those she wrote later. The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...

She seems to have written this pamphlet partly as a more acceptable alternative to writing a letter to the Times, which Lord Melbourne had begged her not to do because of the scandalous publicity...

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...

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 .