Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

Standard Name: Melbourne, Henry William Lamb,,, second Viscount
Used Form: Lord Melbourne
Used Form: William Lamb

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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.
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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.
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This time she used as a publisher her friend John Murray , who had...
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
Joanna Baillie discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
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...
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.
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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
—she helped...
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
A second edition followed the same year (with William Lamb 's permission),
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
195
which contained LCL 's long preface, self-defensive...
Reception Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was granted by Lord Melbourne a Civil List pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 195, 197
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.
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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.
The leading contents of the volume were three narrative poems; many...
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...

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