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Há 1 dia · In 1812, Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public. She had spurned the attention of the poet on their first meeting, subsequently giving Byron what became his lasting epitaph when she famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". [114]
16 de mai. de 2024 · 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 ...
16 de mai. de 2024 · Click and Collect in 7 - 14 days. Description. From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry.
16 de mai. de 2024 · Antonia Fraser's vividly compelling biography animates the life of 'a free spirit' who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co. ISBN: 9781474624848. Number of pages: 224. Weight: 41 g. Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS.
Há 2 dias · The poet Lady Caroline Lamb called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s evocative novel. Ebullient and mercurial, he is also magnetic, enchanting the writer Percy Shelley, who plays a sort of fey F. Scott Fitzgerald to Byron’s swaggering Hemingway.
30 de abr. de 2024 · This type harks back to Byron’s own public persona as much as to his literary creations: One of his more notorious lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, famously described him as, “Mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” a phrase that launched a thousand literary bad boys.
Há 4 dias · The poetry, romantic adventures, and character of Lord Byron—characterized by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know"—were another inspiration for the Gothic novel, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero. For example, Byron is the title character in Lady Caroline's Gothic novel Glenarvon (1816).
