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was the author of three early-nineteenth-century novels and of an unpublished diary and occasional poetry.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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Douglas, Lamb 279
Occupation
Frances Arabella Rowden
On leaving the St Quintins' school FAR
became a governess. Her employers included, for several years, Lord Bessborough
(one of whose children was the future Lady Caroline Lamb
).
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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Occupation
Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
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.
She explained its genesis in an advertisement (dated 23 May...
Publishing
Frances Arabella Rowden
It has a curious emblematic frontispiece done by Rowden's former pupil Lady Caroline Lamb
, which shows Superstition, terrified at the annihilation of the Pagan Deities, being directed by an Angel of Light to turn...
Textual Production
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 Production
Naomi Royde-Smith
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...
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...
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
...
