Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Her mother then fell ill; Caroline was persuaded that she was to blame and in early September, her parents and husband bore her off to Bessborough House in Kilkenny, Ireland. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 126 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Ada's mother, Lady Noel Byron
, née Anne Isabella (generally called Annabella) Milbanke, was an active philanthropist and had mathematical interests that led Byron to dub her the Princess of Parallelograms. She was a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Some, including Lady Byron
, speculated that Medora was the child of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Byron Leigh
. AAB
had already, in 1828, broken with Augusta over the issue of publishing Byron's letters... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Jealous of the interest her daughter was showing in the man she had worked to demonize, Lady Noel Byron
was angered by Ada's visit to Newstead, and relations between the two deteriorated significantly after the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Ada Byron | Her mother
survived till 1860. Unwillingly enmeshed in family scandals, and having already destroyed various papers, she burned more after Ada's death and embargoed her correspondence for thirty years. But while she was silent others... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | Lord Byron
's marriage to Annabella Milbanke
was at least in part engineered by Lady Melbourne
, mother-in-law of Lady Caroline Lamb
. Annabella had refused Byron once before she accepted him. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 128-30, 134-5 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry
's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Carpenter | This house was bought for her by Lady Byron
, who also arranged for Carpenter's close friend and fellow activist Frances Power Cobbe
to move into Red Lodge with her in November that year. Cobbe... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | Lady Byron
was another of the Clives' acquaintances. Following a visit in 1843, CC
wrote: That is the woman that has been tossed about by such vehement passions, by contact with such a fiery nature... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Robert Noel
introduced ABJ
to Annabella, Lady Byron
, and they became close friends. Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967. 91 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | Seeking a purpose in life, she had met her lifelong friend Clementia or Mentia Taylor
and other social activists in London. The arrangement with Carpenter
was facilitated by her supporter Lady Byron
, who... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke
(whose daughter became Lady Byron
), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve
, William Sotheby
, William Harness |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | For nearly six years she was an invalid, though she was able to work very productively for the first few years and remained well enough to receive visitors. She was helped financially by two female... |
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