Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Lady MelbourneTexas A&M University Press, 1998 - 488 Seiten "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 More than one hundred previously unpublished letters of Lady Melbourne are included in this scholarly edition which vividly re-creates the late Georgian age.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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... figure who followed in her mother's footsteps . She sat on the Ladies ' Committee at Almack's that once excluded the duke of Wellington from a fashionable event because he arrived ten minutes late ( Airlie , Palmerston 40 ) . It was ...
... figure who followed in her mother's footsteps . She sat on the Ladies ' Committee at Almack's that once excluded the duke of Wellington from a fashionable event because he arrived ten minutes late ( Airlie , Palmerston 40 ) . It was ...
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... figures in a glossary . I hope these biographies will be helpful in their own right , for though the Dictionary of National Biography provides information on the most well - known figures , it does not include many of the men and ...
... figures in a glossary . I hope these biographies will be helpful in their own right , for though the Dictionary of National Biography provides information on the most well - known figures , it does not include many of the men and ...
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... ( figure 1 ) still hangs in the National Gallery.3 Peniston Lamb sits on a horse surveying his estate , while Elizabeth's brother and father attend her wearing tricolor hats . They are giving the young woman away , presumably on the day ...
... ( figure 1 ) still hangs in the National Gallery.3 Peniston Lamb sits on a horse surveying his estate , while Elizabeth's brother and father attend her wearing tricolor hats . They are giving the young woman away , presumably on the day ...
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... ( figure 2 ) , and Chambers did not disappoint her . Set a hundred feet back from Piccadilly and directly to the east of Burlington House , Melbourne House , Piccadilly was pro- tected by a high wall surmounted by ornamental lamps ( figure ...
... ( figure 2 ) , and Chambers did not disappoint her . Set a hundred feet back from Piccadilly and directly to the east of Burlington House , Melbourne House , Piccadilly was pro- tected by a high wall surmounted by ornamental lamps ( figure ...
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... ( figures 8 and 9 ) .13 Peniston Lamb's father , Matthew Lamb , tore down the old manor house that he bought from the Reade family in 1746 and built the red - brick estate that exists today from designs by James Paine ( Paine 15 ) ( figure ...
... ( figures 8 and 9 ) .13 Peniston Lamb's father , Matthew Lamb , tore down the old manor house that he bought from the Reade family in 1746 and built the red - brick estate that exists today from designs by James Paine ( Paine 15 ) ( figure ...
Inhalt
69 | |
95 | |
115 | |
157 | |
Illustrations | 205 |
Lady Melbournes Letters to Henry Fox and Transcriptions of Political Events | 372 |
Letter of Lord Melbourne to Sophia Baddeley | 381 |
Unpublished Letter of the Prince Regent to Lady Melbourne | 383 |
Three Letters of Lord Grey to Lady Melbourne Regarding the Appointment of Frederick Land to a Diplomatic Position in the Two Sicilies | 385 |
Genealogical Tables The Milbanks and Melbourne Families | 389 |
Index | 468 |
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Seite 195 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Seite 199 - I'll have her, but I will not keep her long. What ! I, that kill'd her husband and his father, To take her in her heart's...
Seite 263 - Jose and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other not divorced but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife, Their conduct was exceedingly well-bred, And gave no outward signs of inward strife, Until at length the smother'd fire broke out, And put the business past all kind of doubt.
Seite 368 - In fact, he was convinced by experience, that the Cabinet neither possessed ability, nor knowledge to devise a good plan; nor temper and discernment to adopt what he now thought necessary unless Mr.
Seite 368 - Wellesley thought that it was perfectly practicable to extend the plan in the peninsula ; . and that it was neither safe nor honest towards this country or the allies, to continue the present contracted scheme.
Seite 326 - Just returned from seeing Kean in Richard. By Jove, he is a soul ! Life — nature — truth — without exaggeration or diminution.
Seite 19 - Wraxall, the diplomat, paid tribute to her "commanding figure, exceeding the middle height, full of grace and dignity, an animated countenance, intelligent features, captivating manners, and conversation; all these and many other attractions, enhanced by coquetry, met in Lady Melbourne
Seite 46 - Westmorland, she turned on her heel and wrote in her diary that he was 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know.' The acquaintance was renewed at Lady Holland's, and for nine months he almost lived at Melbourne House, where he contrived to 'sweep away' the dancing, in which he could take no part.
Seite 21 - Mr. Damer supped at the Bedford Arms in Covent Garden, with four common women, a blind fiddler, and no other man. At three in the morning he dismissed his seraglio, bidding each receive her guinea at the bar, and ordering Orpheus to come up again in half-an-hour.