Percy Shelley
, having read her first volume of poems and heard a report of her from his cousin Thomas Medwin
, attempted unsuccessfully and under a pseudonym to establish a correspondence with the teenaged...
Literary responses
Lady Caroline Lamb
From the date of Byron's death, LCL
lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin
, whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an...