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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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
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
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 Production
Caroline Norton
Nearly a century after her death, The Letters of Caroline Norton
to Lord Melbourne were published.
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...
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...
Violence
Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL
later described to Sydney Morgan the episode which she called my fracas with the page, which made such noise,
qtd. in
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 201
and which she regarded as a crucial step towards her eventual legal separation...
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.