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Caroline Lamb
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Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Lady Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me that if the authoress had written the truth ... the romance would not only have been more romantic, but more entertaining.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book I had bought for Miss Morritt from Miss Emily Cholmley...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Lady Caroline Lamb : Ada Reis
'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb Manuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer.
Lady Caroline Lamb : Graham Hamilton
'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godwin Manuscript: Unknown
Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]
'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh Manuscript: Unknown
Lady Caroline Lamb : [letters and verses]
'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) Manuscript: Unknown
Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon
'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Caroline Lamb (anon.) : Glenarvon
'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so mingled with true in its pages, that the next generation will not be able to separate them; otherwise, if it were worth any person's while [italics] now [end italics] to write explanatory notes on that work, it might go down to posterity as hints for memoirs of her times. Some of the poetry scattered throughout the volumes is very mellifluous, and was set to music by more than one composer'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : 'Winter Amusements'
'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess of D[evonshire].' [the poem that follows is entitled WINTER AMUSEMENTS]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury Manuscript: Sheet
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man absolutely holds forth the doctrine of [irre]sistable Passion, & that if Lady Avondale falls desperately in love with Lord Glenarvon, after marrying the Man of her own Choice, there is no help for it: if he spare her, well & good! if not she must fall! charming Morality & such as my dear Miss Houltons will never be taught.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons intended to be portrayed. Many characters are drawn I think full as well as the Princess of Madagascar. The circle at Lady Oxford's is surely well drawn and faithful; Buchanan, Sir Godfrey Webster - and even Lady Byron's own character is not ill done. The letter is an original, the signature alone different, and I am a firm believer in the whole history as far as relates to Calantha and "Glenarvon". He did not quit her until he was tired, and the letter was actually sealed with Lady Oxford's seal and directed in her hand writing'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me most of the serious parts were extracts from the "Rambler". I have not had time or patience to compare them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an extract from it in the newspapers, I brought it home, and really think if Lady Caroline wrote it she deserves high place amongst the fair authors of the present day. I cannot think it is hers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Edgeworth Print: Book
Lady Caroline Lamb : Ada Reis
William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822: 'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can only be got over by power of writing, beauty of sentiment, striking and effective situation, &c. [...] Mr. [William] Gifford [Murray's reader], I dare say, will agree with me that since the time of Lucian all the representations of the infernal regions, which have been attempted by satirical writers, such as Fielding's "Journey from this World to the Next," have been feeble and flat. The sketch in "Ada Reis" is commonplace in its observations and altogether insufficient [...] I think, if it were thought that anything could be done with the novel, and that the faults of its design and structure can be got over, that I could put her [i.e Lady Caroline Lamb] in the way of writing up this part a little, and giving it something of strength, spirit, and novelty, and making it at once more moral and more interesting. I wish you would communicate these my hasty suggestions to Mr. Gifford, and he will see the propriety of pressing Lady Caroline to take a little more time to this part of the novel. She will be guided by his authority, and her fault at present is to be too hasty and too impatient of the trouble of correcting and recasting what is faulty.'
