Byron's "corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Lady MelbourneTexas A&M University Press, 1998 - 488 ページ "What famous letters your own are . . . I never saw such traits of discernment, observation of character, knowledge of your own sex, and sly concealment of your knowledge of the foibles of ours," wrote the twenty-four-year-old Lord Byron to Lady Melbourne. More than one hundred previously unpublished letters of Lady Melbourne are included in this scholarly edition which vividly re-creates the late Georgian age. Lady Melbourne's controversial letters to Lord Byron are published in their entirety for the first time, revealing her significant influence on his masterpiece, Don Juan. Long before the famous correspondence between Byron and Lady Melbourne began, she had impressed her own contemporaries as a woman of no small signficance. Married off to the son of a wealthy lawyer, she used her superior education, attention to detail, and business acumen to manage her amiable but dissolute husband's affairs. A leading female agriculturist, she was the Duchess of Devonshire's closest confidante, as well as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1780–84). At her residence in Piccadilly, she entertained a brilliant company that included Charles James Fox, George Canning, and Charles Grey. A half dozen of the nation's most famous painters executed her portrait in oil, while Sheridan recorded her witty repartee in The School for Scandal. Scholars of the Romantic period will welcome reading these carefully annotated letters written by one of the age's most ambitious and captivating personalities. |
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... gave Naples to Joachim Murat , who had married Napoleon's sister Caroline . 3. This date , suggested by the British Library , seems to coincide with the last illness of Peniston Lamb , Lady Melbourne's first son , who died of ...
... gave Naples to Joachim Murat , who had married Napoleon's sister Caroline . 3. This date , suggested by the British Library , seems to coincide with the last illness of Peniston Lamb , Lady Melbourne's first son , who died of ...
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... gave you so little to eat you have returned the favor in preventing me from sleeping and I believe that having exchanged these witty remarks we gave ourselves torment enough . " 10. The son of Lord Glenbervie ( Airlie , Whig 169 ) . 11 ...
... gave you so little to eat you have returned the favor in preventing me from sleeping and I believe that having exchanged these witty remarks we gave ourselves torment enough . " 10. The son of Lord Glenbervie ( Airlie , Whig 169 ) . 11 ...
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... gave a most favourable Acc & all Sign'd it , Crofts went into ye next room as P Leopold23 came into his & was dissuading “ Dr. ^ Sims24 from going to Town so Soon , ( which has always made me Suspect he was not quite Satisfied ) when ye ...
... gave a most favourable Acc & all Sign'd it , Crofts went into ye next room as P Leopold23 came into his & was dissuading “ Dr. ^ Sims24 from going to Town so Soon , ( which has always made me Suspect he was not quite Satisfied ) when ye ...
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