Lady Caroline Lamb

13 November 1785 - 26 January 1828

Standard Name: Lamb, Lady Caroline

Birth Name: Caroline Ponsonby

Styled: Lady Caroline Ponsonby

Nickname: Car Ponsonby

Married Name: Lady Caroline Lamb

Nickname: Caro William

Nickname: Lady Calantha Limb

LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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 Byron , and her work has seldom been discussed other than in that context. Her later novels, however, move away from the personal.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
death	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...
Dedications	Frances Arabella Rowden	She dedicated the work to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (aunt of her pupil Lady Caroline Lamb ), who blooms the sweetest flow'r in Britain's isle. Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Poetical Introduction to the Study of Botany. T. Bensley, 1801. She explained its genesis in an advertisement (dated 23 May...
Education	L. E. L.	This school was advanced for its time, and had educated women such as Mary Russell Mitford and Lady Caroline Lamb . Rowden was herself a writer. While there, LEL learned a great deal of French...
Education	Elizabeth Taylor	Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 When Betty was eleven...
Education	Mary Russell Mitford	On a visit to London in June 1814, MRM returned to the school, attended its prize-giving, and heard a work of her own, The March of Mind, recited. She was to have presented the...
Family and Intimate relationships	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	Lord Byron 's marriage to Annabella Milbanke was at least in part engineered by Lady Melbourne , mother-in-law of Lady Caroline Lamb . Annabella had refused Byron once before she accepted him. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 128-30, 134-5
Family and Intimate relationships	George Gordon sixth Baron Byron	Apart from Byron's rumoured sexual relation with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh , the most notorious among his many affairs were those with Lady Caroline Lamb , Claire Clairmont , and Teresa Guiccioli . Lamb's remarkable...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	Lady Caroline Lamb , a friend of both parties, seems to have encouraged the relationship at first, but then warned Rosina not to marry Edward. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Douglas, Lamb 279
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriette Wilson	Some months before her twentieth birthday, HW fell in love at first sight with Lord John Ponsonby (a relation of the famous Duchess of Devonshire and cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb ), who became second...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Mary Walker	Her illegitimate grand-daughter Mary was taken back after LMW 's death by her father, Ugo Foscolo , who had settled in London, where he had arrived on 11 September 1816. Mary brought him the...
Family and Intimate relationships	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton	As a very young man he had a notorious affair with Lady Caroline Lamb . Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Friends, Associates	Lady Eleanor Butler	Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Friends, Associates	L. E. L.	By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Isabella Spence	During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...
Friends, Associates	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	Their mother was living in Paris at this time, and Rosina lived in London with her uncle Sir John Doyle (latterly without her sister, who joined their mother in Paris). She reputedly had an unusual...

Timeline

By July 1813

Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.

The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black.

21 (1813): 299-309

Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

150-1

December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.

Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

274

Texts

Lamb, Lady Caroline. A New Canto. William Wright, 1819.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823, 3 vols.

Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816, 3 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. 2nd ed., Henry Colburn, 1816, 3 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Gordon. T. and J. Allman, 1821.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. Graham Hamilton. Henry Colburn, 1822, 2 vols.

Lamb, Lady Caroline. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. Editor Douglass, Paul, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.