Lady Caroline Lamb
English writer (1785-1828) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 42
Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".
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Lady Caroline's mother, Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, by Angelica Kauffman in 1793
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by Thomas Lawrence, 1805.
Lady Caroline Lamb, née Ponsonby by John Hoppner
Portrait of Lord Byron in 1814, by Thomas Phillips
Lady Caroline Lamb by Eliza H. Trotter, 1810s
An illustration of Lady Caroline from In Spite of Epilepsy (1910) by Matthew Woods
Portrait of Lord Melbourne by John Partridge. After her death her husband served twice as Prime Minister.About this person
Her husband was the Honourable William Lamb, who after her death became 2nd Viscount Melbourne and British prime minister.
