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Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron , whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".
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 ...
Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (16 June 1761 – 11 November 1821), born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer (generally called Harriet), was the wife of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; the couple were the parents of Lady Caroline Lamb.
Despite the quixotic nursing ideas of his sister, [further explanation needed] the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, [9] [10] and despite being further bled of 120 imperial fluid ounces (3.4 L) over two days, he managed to survive against the odds from his seven major wounds. [11] [7] [6] [11]
Lady Caroline Lamb, painted by Lawrence around the same time as her husband. Melbourne had a troubled relationship with his wife. Melbourne had a troubled relationship with his wife. It was painted around the time of his marriage to Lady Caroline Lamb , who Lawrence also depicted.
Involved at first in an affair with Lady Caroline Lamb (who called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know") and with other lovers and also pressed by debt, he began to seek a suitable marriage, considering – amongst others – Annabella Millbanke. [63] However, in 1813 he met for the first time in four years his half-sister, Augusta Leigh ...
Lamb succeeded his elder brother Peniston as heir to his father's title in 1805 (and as captain of the Midland Troop, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, when he resigned his commission in the Volunteer Infantry [10]) and married Lady Caroline Ponsonby, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. After two miscarriages and a stillborn child, she gave birth to George ...
Graham Hamilton is an 1822 two volume novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Lady Caroline Lamb. [1] Her second novel to be published following her 1816 debut Glenarvon, it mocks and attacks the Whig high society in which she had been raised. [2]