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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. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 243 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
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 |
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... |
Reception | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Lord Melbourne
offered Sydney, Lady Morgan
, a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb
... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | This amount was increased to £300 by Lord Melbourne
in May 1837. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 161 |
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... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a... |
Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Lord Melbourne
, who got Sydney Morgan
her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK
's annual award of £50. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | 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... |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | Critic Harriet Devine Jump
feels that CN
's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne
contrast in tone with those she wrote later. Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS. |
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