Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

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.

A deed of legal separation between LCL and William Lamb was drawn up and finally signed by both parties.

LCL later described to Sydney Morgan the episode which she called my fracas with the page, which made such noise,and which she regarded as a crucial step towards her eventual legal separation...

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...

At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...

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

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 .

Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne were published.

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...