Evidence: | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (c. August 1802):
'Mama, my aunt, Corisande and Caro Ponsonby have been spending 2 or 3 days at Brocket Hall [The Melbournes' country house] [...]
'There was an extraordinary flirtation between William Lamb and Caro. Ponsonby, and they seem, I hear, mutually captivated. When the rest were at games, etc., William was in a corner, reading and explaining Poetry to Car., and in the morning, reading tales of wonder together on the [italics]tithertother[end italics].' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Aug 1802 and 31 Aug 1802 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Brocket Hall | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | William Lamb and Caroline Ponsonby |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | 'tales of wonder' |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25712 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer | |
Title: | Hary-o: The Letters of Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 23 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer (ed.), Hary-o: The Letters of Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 (London, 1940), p. 23, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25712, accessed: 01 May 2024 |
William Lamb and Caroline Ponsonby were married in 1805. |
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