Henry William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne

Standard Name: Melbourne, Henry William Lamb,,, second Viscount
Used Form: Lord Melbourne
Used Form: William Lamb

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Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Ada Byron
Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron , née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charles Dickens
The first issues contained loosely linked, picaresque, and quite satirical episodes resulting from the travels of Mr Pickwick and members of his eponymous club. As The Pickwick Papers progressed, the linearity of the plot strengthened...
Friends, Associates Emily Eden
Lady Emily Cowper (later Palmerston) tried, at Panshanger in Hertfordshire, to match EE with her widowed brother Lord Melbourne .
Claridge, Elizabeth et al. “Introduction”. Up the Country, Virago, p. v - xx.
vii
Textual Production Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
A deed of legal separation between LCL and William Lamb was drawn up and finally signed by both parties.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
271, 300
Violence Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL later described to Sydney Morgan the episode which she called my fracas with the page, which made such noise,
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 201
and which she regarded as a crucial step towards her eventual legal separation...
Friends, Associates Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL 's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
At the same time that LCL had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb now set about having articles of legal separation drawn up in accordance with the wishes of his family.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 202
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Caroline Lamb
He added that there had been only one thing that she had wanted—reunion with her husband —and that this experience she lived just long enough to have. William Lamb, whose political career was now gathering...
Publishing Lady Caroline Lamb
Among copies sent out by the author was one for Germaine de Staël .
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
185
A second edition followed the same year (with William Lamb 's permission),
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
195
which contained LCL 's long preface, self-defensive...
Textual Features Lady Caroline Lamb
Using as a foundation her affair with Byron (not its actual events but its emotional impact), LCL tells a melodramatic, gothic tale in rhapsodic, overblown style. Critic Paul Douglass thinks the fourteen lyrics included in...
Literary responses Lady Caroline Lamb
When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 202
Joanna Baillie discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Caroline Lamb
In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo , though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character.
Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan.
225

Timeline

December 1825: The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed,...

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December 1825

The banking firm of Sir Peter Poole failed, dragging down seven other banks with it.

16 July 1834: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, a Whig, became...

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16 July 1834

William Lamb, Lord Melbourne , a Whig, became Prime Minister after Lord Grey 's resignation.

18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...

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18 April 1835

After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in the House of Commons , the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne (William Lamb , a Whig) was formed.

30 August 1841: The Whig government under Melbourne fell...

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30 August 1841

The Whig government under Melbourne fell on the issue of Corn Laws (which they failed to get through parliament) and, following an election next month, the Tory Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister.

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