Record Number: 8605

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Sep 1806 and 14 Sep 1806

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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 Whig political elite

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n?e Caroline Ponsonby

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Lady Georgiana Morpeth

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8605

Source:

Print

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:

27

Additional Comments:

Letter to Georgiana, Lady Morpeth, Future Sixth Countess of Carlisle. Douglass dates the letter 14 September 1806.

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. 27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=8605, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Lady Caroline probably refers to verses written about the death of Charles James Fox.