| Evidence: | 'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pistol at Mantons & stand before the Giaour [Lord Byron] & his legal wife & shoot myself'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jun 1813 and 31 Aug 1814 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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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, influential 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/a |
| Author: | George Gordon Lord Byron |
| Title: | The Giaour |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 8643 | |
| 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: | 128 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to John Murray. Douglass states that it cannot be after September-October 1814. |
| 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. 128, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8643, accessed: 02 December 2023 | |
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