Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne
Standard Name: Melbourne, Henry William Lamb,,, second Viscount
Used Form: Lord Melbourne
Used Form: William Lamb
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Lady Caroline Lamb | Using as a foundation her affair with Byron
(not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL
tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass
thinks the fourteen lyrics included in... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Textual Production | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne
's Whigs
after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and... |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charles Dickens | The first issues contained loosely linked, picaresque, and quite satirical episodes resulting from the travels of Mr Pickwick and members of his eponymous club. As The Pickwick Papers progressed, the linearity of the plot strengthened... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron
, née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a... |
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