Evidence: | 'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have been better to publish Byron's journal rather than burn it, for Medwin's book [Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron] was "full of vulgarity & erros--even as to dates"'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1824 and 30 Nov 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Lady Caroline Lamb |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1785 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | socialite, novelist, inflential member of the Whig political elite |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n?e Ponsonby |
Author: | Thomas Medwin |
Title: | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron |
Genre: | Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Henry Colburn, 1824 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 10004 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby) | |
Editor: | Paul Douglass | |
Title: | The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Place of Publication: | New York | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 201 | |
Additional comments: | Douglass quotes a letter Lady Caroline wrote to Hobhouse in the autumn of 1824. |
Citation: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (New York, 2006), n/a, p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10004, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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