Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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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Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Lord Melbourne
, who got Sydney Morgan
her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK
's annual award of £50. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. 243 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
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 | Caroline Norton | Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton
to Lord Melbourne were published. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Caroline Norton | She seems to have written this pamphlet partly as a more acceptable alternative to writing a letter to the Times, which Lord Melbourne
had begged her not to do because of the scandalous publicity... |
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... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a... |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | Critic Harriet Devine Jump
feels that CN
's poems written during the trial of Lord Melbourne
contrast in tone with those she wrote later. Jump, Harriet Devine. “The False Prudery of Public Taste: Scandalous Women and the Annuals, 1830-1850”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS. |
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... |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was granted by Lord Melbourne
a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum, with the hope of an increase later. 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. 2: 195, 197 |
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
... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | This amount was increased to £300 by Lord Melbourne
in May 1837. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 161 |
Timeline
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.
16 July 1834: William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, a Whig, became...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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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