My article "'rather ridicule than censure': Lady Caroline Lamb, Frances Arabella Rowden, and the Art of Respectability" is out now in Literature Compass.
#CarolineLamb #Romanticism #criticalbibliography #bookhistory #womenwriters
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"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." (On #Byron)
✒️ Lady #CarolineLamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of #LordByron, passed away #OTD 25 January 1828. #Literature
#ThomasPhillips (1770-1845)
Portrait of Lady #CarolineLamb (1785-1828), who was #BornOnThisDay
1813
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
#CarolinePonsonby
Eliza H. Trotter (fl. 1800–1815)
Portrait of Lady #CarolineLamb (1785-1828), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1811-14
National Portrait Gallery
#CarolinePonsonby
#ThomasLawrence (1769–1830)
Portrait of Lady #CarolineLamb (1785-1828), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1827
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
#CarolinePonsonby
"Nature formed me fierce."
"He is mad, bad and dangerous to know." (On #Byron)
✒️ Lady #CarolineLamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of #LordByron, was #BOTD 13 November 1785. #Literature
I'm reading Lady Caroline Lamb's letters about planning a dinner for Sir Walter Scott. There's literally no one this woman didn't know. Her reach in the Romantic-era literary sphere both before and after Byron is staggering.
#Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb
"Mad, bad and dangerous to know."
📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 9 May 1816, Lady #CarolineLamb published her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", a thinly disguised account of her affair with Lord #Byron, which also included her husband #WilliamLamb, later Prime Minister.
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." (On #Byron)
✒️ Lady #CarolineLamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of #LordByron, passed away #OTD 25 January 1828. #Literature
