Lady Caroline Lamb

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The Lady Caroline Lamb (13 November 1785–26 January 1828) was a novelist and British aristocrat, the only daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, with whom George IV fell in love. Although her husband was the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne, because she died before he acceded to the peerage; this is why she is known to history as Lady Caroline Lamb. She is most remembered for her tempestuous affair with Lord Byron in 1812. is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (24 January 1758 – 3 February 1844) was a British peer. ... Arms of Lord Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC (15 March 1779–24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841), and a mentor of Queen Victoria. ... Byron redirects here. ...

Her social credentials also included being niece of the Duchess of Devonshire, and cousin (by marriage) of Lady Byron. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806), born Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. ... This article may not meet Wikipedias quality standards and should be cleaned up. ...

Youth and education

She was born the Honourable Caroline Ponsonby, and became Lady Caroline when her father acceded to the earldom in 1793. She was considered delicate as a small child and spent much time in the country for her health, but from 1794 she lived at Devonshire House with her cousins: Lord Hartington (later the 6th Duke of Devonshire), Lady Georgiana and Lady Harriet Cavendish, and two children of Lady Elizabeth Foster and the Duke of Devonshire. She was educated at Devonshire House with these children, and was particularly close during childhood to Lady Harriet, who was only three months older.^[1] A ball at Devonshire House in 1850. ... William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790 - 1858), was known as the Bachelor Duke. In 1811, at the age of 21, he inherited eight stately homes and 200,000 acres (809 km²) of land. ... Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (formerly Elizabeth Hervey, later Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759 - March 30, 1824), is best known as the close friend of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who supplanted the Duchess in her husbands affections and later married him. ... William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (December 14, 1748 - July 29, 1811), was the eldest son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire by his wife the heiress Lady Charlotte Boyle, suo jure Baroness Clifford, who brought in considerable money and estates to the Cavendish family. ...

Lady Morgan reported in her memoirs that Lady Caroline told her that she had grown up as a tomboy, and quite unable to read or write until adolescence.^[2] While many scholars have accepted this (and other melodramatic claims Lady Morgan described) at face value,^[3] published works of correspondence and about her family members make it extremely unlikely. The grandmother she shared with her Cavendish cousins, the formidable Dowager Lady Spencer, was zealously dedicated to promoting education, and later employed their governess as her own companion. This governess was Miss Selina Trimmer, who was the sister-in-law of Mrs Sarah Trimmer, a well-known and respected author of moral tales for children. She taught them an extensive curriculum, considerably beyond mere literacy. There is a published letter Lady Caroline wrote on 31 October 1796 (just before her eleventh birthday) that not only demonstrates her literacy, but also a merciless wit and talent for mimicry.^[1] Lady Caroline was exceptionally well educated at home, and also attended a school in Hans Place, London. In her early adult years, she not only wrote prose and poetry, but also took to sketch portraiture. These courtly skills stood her in good stead. She spoke French and Italian fluently, was skilled at Greek and Latin, and also enjoyed music and drama. Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) (ca. ... For other uses, see Tomboy (disambiguation). ... Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), daughter of landscape artist John Kirby, was a noted writer and critic of childrens literature in the 18th century. ... Hans Place is a prime residential garden square situated immediately south of Harrods in Knightsbridge. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to everyday speech. ... This article is about the art form. ... French (le français, la langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. ... The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA // – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ...

Marriage and family

In June, 1805, at the age of nineteen, she married the Hon. William Lamb, an up-and-coming young politician, and heir to the 1st Viscount Melbourne. They had been "mutually captivated" in the summer of 1802 during a visit to Brocket Hall, the Melbournes's country house.^[1] Her union with Lamb produced a son in 1807 and a premature daughter in 1809 who died within 24 hours.^[4] The loss of two children and the health problems of the surviving boy teamed with Lamb's consuming career ambitions to drive a wedge between the couple. There is some evidence (in an 1810 letter from Lady Caroline to Lady Melbourne) that Lamb was sexually promiscuous, and that he demanded the type of intemperate sexual shenanigans from his wife that would not be expected of a gentlewoman. The Lamb family also sought a formal separation of William and Caroline. Thomas Jefferson. ... Arms of Lord Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC (15 March 1779–24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841), and a mentor of Queen Victoria. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ... Viscount Melbourne was a title created for Peniston Lamb in 1781 in the peerage of Ireland. ... Brocket Hall is a country house in Hertfordshire, England, 22 miles from central London by road. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... “Promiscuous” redirects here. ...

Lord Byron

In 1812, Lady Caroline embarked on her well-publicised affair with Lord Byron (the main theme of the film Lady Caroline Lamb). She had attracted the attention of the poet through her accomplished wit and vivacity, and he in turn obsessed over her, actively trying to destroy her marriage to Lamb so that he might have her to himself. He was 24 and she 27, a quick-witted mother who was able to hold her own in the cut-and-thrust world of a politician's wife, but none of this served her well. She fell for his ploys, and became ensnared in his obsession for her. Byron's concept of romance was to possess fully the object of one's desire, right up until the moment that one became bored. Lady Caroline was heartbroken by her treatment and abandonment by Byron. It was she who described the poet as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" (on the other hand, in an early love letter Byron had chided her for her "total want of common conduct"). For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... Byron redirects here. ... Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... This article primarily discusses philosophical ideologies in relation to the subject of romantic love. ...

Contrary to legend, Lady Caroline was not blackballed at Almack's in 1812 for her affair with Byron. Rather, her vouchers to that exclusive club were rescinded in 1816 after she published Glenarvon. Her cousin Harriet (by then Lady Granville), with whom her relationship had deteriorated after childhood, visited her in December 1816 and was so incredulous of her unrepentant behavior that she ended her description of the visit in a letter to her sister with: "I mean my visit to be annual."^[5] Londons high society at Almacks. ...

Literary career

After her liaison with Byron, Lady Caroline enjoyed some success as a novelist. Glenarvon, a Gothic novel, was published anonymously in 1816, and included a thinly-disguised pen-picture of her former lover. She published two further novels, Graham Hamilton in 1822 and Ada Reis in 1823, and two narrative poems, mostly anonymously, during the following decade. This article should be translated from material at fr:Liaison. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Later life and death

In 1824, she accidentally came across Byron's funeral cortège on its way to his burial place, and this incident drove her to a nervous breakdown, and rumoured insanity. She lived her last years in seclusion at Brocket Hall. 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Brocket Hall is a country house in Hertfordshire, England, 22 miles from central London by road. ...

Further Reading

• Paul Douglass (2004) Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography. Palgrave Macmillan.

Notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b c} Leveson-Gower, Sir George (Ed.), Hary-O: the Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809, London: John Murray (1940).
2. ^ Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan) (1862). Lady Morgan's memoirs autobiography, diaries and correspondence. Wm. H. Allen & Co. ISBN 0-4045-6793-2.  |editor=Dixon, William Hepworth
3. ^ "Lady Caroline Lamb," The Literary Encyclopedia,
4. ^ Paul Douglass (1999). "The madness of writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic identity". Pacific Coast Philology 34 (1): 53–71.
5. ^ Leveson-Gower, F. (Ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1894).

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External links

• 'CARO: The Lady Caroline Lamb Website: “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know”?'
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• MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW - The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb