Lady Caroline Lamb
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was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry. Some of her satirical poems were published. She wrote her first novel as a personal testament and retaliation after her affair with
, and her work has seldom been discussed other than in that context. Her later novels, however, move away from the personal.
- BirthName: Caroline Ponsonby
- Nicknames: Car Ponsonby; Caro William; Lady Calantha LimbThis name was applied to her in fiction by.
- Married: Lamb
- Styled: LadyShe became Lady Caroline as a small child, when her father inherited his earldom in 1793.