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LCL was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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.
Photograph of a portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Her head is tilted, and her curly brown hair is presented as natural and unstyled. Her head and neck emerge from a background impressionistically rendered without concrete detail.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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 Production 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.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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...
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.
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Reception Elizabeth Thomas
Lady Caroline Lamb read this novel while working on her own Glenarvon.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Thomas
Thomas calls her Caroline Lamb character Lady Calantha Limb, appropriating the Christian name of Lamb's heroine in Glenarvon, along with several of her speeches. Elizabeth Thomas 's own heroine, the beautiful, rich, cherished, seventeen-year-old...
Literary responses Elizabeth Thomas
Lady Caroline Lamb felt, she said, relieved that ET had not succeeded in turning her into ridicule, since she had less idea even of common humour—& liveliness than any one I ever met with. She...
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...
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.
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When Betty was eleven...
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 ...
Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
They had houses, or mansions, in Tyrone, in Scotland, and at Stanmore Priory near London; they treated the celebrated writer as a kind of household pet, even making fun of her nationalist...
Material Conditions of Writing Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The first idea for this book had come to her in Italy, when she looked at Rosa's pictures in galleries, and learned that he had also been a satirist of the established political order. She...
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...

Timeline

By July 1813: Byron published The Giaour, an oriental tale...

Writing climate item

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.