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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".
The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. [105] [106] The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. [107] Βύρων, the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and a suburb of Athens is called Vyronas in his honour.
The child's middle name was taken from the heroine of Byron's poem The Corsair. [1] In the family, she was known as Elizabeth or "Libby", but she also later used the name Medora. In 1816, the scandal over his separation from his wife Annabella, rumours surrounding his relationship with Augusta, and mounting debts forced Byron to leave England. [2]
Lady Byron's reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about alleged incest between Lord Byron and his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's intentions to leave England and return to the Mediterranean where he had lived in 1810.
Page one of a letter dated October 29 1823 describing Lord Byron’s memoirs which has been discovered at Trinity College (Trinity College/PA) Ms Palgrave writes, in the 1823 letter to her father ...
Lamb first came to general notice for reasons he would rather have avoided: his wife had a public affair with Lord Byron – she coined the famous characterisation of Byron as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". [14] The resulting scandal was the talk of Britain in 1812. [citation needed]
Portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips. Lord Byron rented the villa from 10 June to 1 November 1816. [2] The scandal of his separation from his wife, rumours of an affair with his half-sister, and ever-increasing debt, had forced him to leave England, never to return, in April of that year. [3]
Geoffrey Bond, 85, lives in the same home Lord Byron shared with his mother before he rose to fame.