Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lambs Glenarvon and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, 1997, pp. 1-24. 19
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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death | Lady Caroline Lamb | An anonymous obituary which mentioned but excused her affair with Byron may have been written not by her husband (as was generally supposed) but by Isaac Nathan
. Douglass, Paul. “Playing Byron: Lady Caroline Lambs Glenarvon and the Music of Isaac Nathan”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 8 , 1997, pp. 1-24. 19 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | After Byron had left England for the last time, in 1816, LCL
moved closer in friendship with the musician Isaac Nathan
, whom she had known for a couple of years (he set words of... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Dunlop | She won the confidence of the Aboriginal elders, particularly the chief Boni
. At the same time she held a prominent place in a local literary circle of settlers determined to preserve their ties with... |
Literary responses | Eliza Dunlop | ED
's poem represented thinking unusual for a white person of the time: after the perpetrators were tried for murder, and most of them hanged, Sydney newspapers fulminated not against the taking of black lives... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Performance of text | Eliza Dunlop | Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth
's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans
's The Indian Woman's Lament... |
Publishing | Eliza Dunlop | The Sydney Morning Herald printed Rosetta Nathan's Dirge, which ED
had composed one week earlier at Wollombi for Isaac Nathan
's daughter Jessy Rosetta
, who had died in Sydney on the first of... |
Publishing | Eliza Dunlop | The poem, attributed to a human poet named Wallatu like the spirit or god of poetry, was given in literal transcription along with ED
's Translated and Versified version by the missionary L. E. Threlkeld |
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... |
Textual Production | Eliza Dunlop | ED
published words to a new Australian national anthem, with music by Isaac Nathan
; when this too was attacked by the Sydney Herald (which changed its name just at this date to the Sydney... |
Textual Production | Eliza Dunlop | The battle over The Aboriginal Mother led to further collaboration between Dunlop and Nathan
. They next created words and music respectively for a series of Australian Melodies, 1842-3, which included native Australians among... |
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