The man for whom HW
left Lord Craven, probably in late 1801, was Frederic Lamb
, one of a remarkably talented family whose mother, Lady Melbourne
, was believed to advance their careers (including that...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Caroline Lamb
She told Sydney Morgan she had her first experience of falling in love at twelve.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 212
She had a passion for William Lamb, yet was at first reluctant to marry him because she felt...
Instructor
Harriette Wilson
While she was still in her teens, although engaged in her second paid sexual relationship, her lover Frederic Lamb
set out to get her reading Milton
, Shakespeare
, Byron
, theRambler, Virgil
She was there again with her husband a year later, after travelling to Brussels to be with her brother-in-law Frederic Lamb
, who had been wounded at Waterloo.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
171-3
Violence
Harriette Wilson
Later, while she was kept by the Marquess of Lorne but in love with Lord Ponsonby, Frederic Lamb
visited HW
and, when she refused to have sex with him, almost raped her. In casual conversation...