Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Lady Caroline Lamb
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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was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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.
Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
published her first historical biography, that of Lady Caroline Lamb
(writer and lover of Byron
). It was the first full-length study of Lady Caroline to reach print.
In 2010 Contemporary Authors, inexplicably...
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Mary Augusta Ward
MAW
published The Marriage of William Ashe, a novel inspired by the Romantic-era relationship between the writer Lady Caroline Lamb
and her husband, William Lamb
, later the prime minister Lord Melbourne.
NRS
dedicated her work to Florence Mary Parsons
(calling her, with formal correctness, Mrs. Clement Parsons), author of the twenty-five-year-old definitive biography of Siddons. People she acknowledges include her husband (for advice about old...
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Frances Arabella Rowden
It is dedicated to Sir John Aubrey
of Dorton House, Buckinghamshire, a Tory baronet and member of parliament, with praise for his integrity of principle and spirit of patriotism and for his private or domestic...
Textual Features
Dorothy Wellesley
DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The tales are The Bandit of Florence, and the Fugitive Nun and Imbecility of Mind, which is addressed to the author of Purity of Heart (that is, Elizabeth Thomas
—who in this novel of...
Lady Caroline Lamb
read this novel while working on her own Glenarvon.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Reception
Elizabeth Thomas
In the preface to her next volume Elizabeth Thomas
answered in some detail the attack from the European Magazine. She explained something of her rank in life and her political views, in response to...
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
...
Publishing
Elizabeth Thomas
With Purity of Heart; or, The Ancient Costume. A Tale (and with a different publisher and different pseudonym), Elizabeth Thomas
entered the specific battle-ground surrounding Byron
and Lady Caroline Lamb
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...
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By July 1813
Byron
published The Giaour, an oriental tale in verse, written from late 1812 to early 1813, in a deliberately unfinished state.
December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...
Building item
December 1825
The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole
failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.
Texts
Lamb, Lady Caroline. A New Canto. William Wright, 1819.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Ada Reis. John Murray, 1823.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, and Lady Caroline Lamb. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron. Editor Nathan, Isaac, Whittaker, Treacher, 1829.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Glenarvon. Henry Colburn, 1816.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Gordon. T. and J. Allman, 1821.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. Graham Hamilton. Henry Colburn, 1822.
Lamb, Lady Caroline. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. Editor Douglass, Paul, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
