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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
now set about having articles of legal separation drawn up in accordance with the wishes of his family. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | He added that there had been only one thing that she had wanted—reunion with her husband
—and that this experience she lived just long enough to have. William Lamb, whose political career was now gathering... |
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 |
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. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
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... |
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 |
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