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Lady Caroline Lamb
"This lean biography of the 19th-century Anglo-Irish writer sheds light on her enigmatic life, from her domestic relationship with William Lamb to her literary exploits and notably tempestuous affair with the poet Lord Byron."
– The New York Times Book Review
“Elegantly authoritative. The portrait that takes shape in Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit is not only convincing but also oddly affecting. Above all, it is lifelike. She sets out to give this striking character her due. And the fact that we find ourselves as irritated by Lady Caroline Lamb as we are fascinated is surely proof that Ms. Fraser has succeeded.”
– The Wall Street Journal
"A sprightly biography. A meticulous researcher and an agile, vigorous writer, Fraser has ascended the bestseller lists time and again with her vivid accounts of big lives."
– Washington Post
"The prolific Lady Antonia Fraser has long been drawn to formidable — and tragic — women, starting with her first biography, of Mary Stuart, more than half a century ago.Fraser’s skill and passion override all
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The Woman Who Loved Lord Byron
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
By Antonia Fraser.
Pegasus Books, 2023.
Hardcover, 224 pages, $28.95.
Reviewed by Paul Krause.
“Lady Caroline Lamb broke the rules.” Who was Lady Caroline Lamb, the great rulebreaker, “free spirit,” and lady who nearly destroyed Lord Byron’s image in a day and age when adventurous promiscuity among men was a catalyst for fame and fortune while the same for a woman was a near death-sentence which tarnished her reputation in the halls of polite society? She was, as Antonia Fraser writes in her splendid little biography of this great and complicated woman, “a human being” and “a mother,” not to mention a famous poet and writer.
Lady Caroline Lamb was once a well-known figure, famous not only for her dalliance with Lord Byron but also famous because she was married to William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount of Melbourne, future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She featured prominently in the hagiography of Lord Byron, which was already being constructed in his lifetime, then speedily after his death, to which Carolin
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Biography
Brief Biography (for a listing of full-length biographies, visit Archives & Print Sources):
Lady Caroline Lamb was born Caroline Ponsonby on November 13, 1785, in London. She was the daughter of Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, and his attractive wife, Henrietta Elizabeth, whose sister was Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Georgiana and Henrietta were both “Spencer Girls,” which makes them the ancestors of Princess Diana.
When Lord Duncannon inherited his father’s title and became Earl Bessborough, Caroline received the honorific title of “Lady,” which she kept until she died. She was a member of the very highest of the immensely privileged aristocratic class. She knew the Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent, still later George IV). She was presented to Marie Antoinette and to the queen of Italy. As a child she told Edward Gibbon (the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) that his face was so ugly it had frightened her puppy. Thus began the reputation for outrageous behaviour which followed Caroline throughout life. Headstrong and egalitari
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