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Caroline Lamb z domu Ponsonby (ur. 13 listopada 1785, zm. 25 stycznia 1828) – anglo-irlandzka arystokratka i powieściopisarka, słynna z romansu z lordem George ...
1 de fev. de 2015 · I read “Glenarvon,” too, by Caro Lamb; God damn! 25 March 1817. Lady Caroline Lamb Biography. Lady Caroline Ponsonby Lamb was the daughter of the earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, and the niece of the duchess of Devonshire. As a child she was a tomboy – and a spirit of recklessness and disdain for convention never left her.
Lady Caroline Lamb , among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out - vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac - her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived.
Glenarvon corrupts the innocent young bride Calantha (Caroline herself), leading to their mutual ruin and death. The picture of her husband, William Lamb (the 2nd Viscount Melbourne from 1828), called Lord Avondale in the book, is more favourable, although he too is held to be partly responsible for Calantha's misfortunes: his biographer remarks that the book's message is that Caroline's ...
Lamb, Caroline (1785–1828)English aristocrat, poet and novelist, best known for her tempestuous affair with the poet Lord Byron. Name variations: Caroline Ponsonby; Lady Melbourne; Lady Caroline Lamb; (nickname) Caro.
18 de mai. de 2023 · Fraser approaches Lady Caroline Lamb as an eminent historian of the British era of reform, and a major biographer of complex, victimised women including Mary, Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette. She privileges the evidence of primary sources to recover Lamb the ambitious, politically informed writer from the sensationalist anecdotes recycled by Byron biographers and historians of her husband ...
Lady Caroline’s novels are sometimes described as hysterical and melodramatic, charges that they in some degree warrant, but in other respects do not. She had an uncanny ability to blend fact and fiction, and her satirical edge was sharp. Years after her send-up of the Holland House Whig salon
