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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 was Lady Caroline Lamb's first novel. [1] It created a sensation when published on 9 May 1816. Set in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the book satirized the Whig Holland House circle, [2] [3] while casting a sceptical eye on left-wing politics. [4] Its rakish title character, Lord Glenarvon, is an unflattering depiction of her ex-lover ...
Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 British epic romantic drama film based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (later Prime Minister).
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] It was published anonymously by Henry Colburn.
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.
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", a phrase used by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) to describe her lover Lord Byron; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album), 1986; Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (EP by Joolz Denby with New Model Army), 1986; Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (The Cross album), 1990
Ada Reis is an 1823 novel by the British writer Lady Caroline Lamb published in three volumes. [1] It was her third novel and was published by John Murray.It was published six months after her previous work Graham Hamilton.
Jenkins published the first biographies of Lady Caroline Lamb in 1932 and of Jane Austen in 1938. She was involved in the establishment of the Jane Austen Society in 1940 and worked to purchase Austen's home in Chawton where she wrote Emma and other novels, and which later became the site of Jane Austen's House Museum.