Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Lamb naturally fell easy victim to the wholly different boudoir atmosphere of Devonshire House, whose tyrant was slight, agile, wide-eyed, willful, 17-year-old Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline...
Byron, says Author Cecil, was no true romantic. He "had a robust Eighteenth-Century mocking kind of outlook." When she saw him, Caroline Lamb wrote: "Bad, mad and dangerous to know." A week later she wrote: "That beautiful pale face will be my fate." They went through a curious mock...
At last relatives carried off Caroline and William to Ireland, where everybody said "how fond Lady Caroline seemed of her husband." "When they say that to me," said her mother, "I want to bellow."
Byron (affairing with calm Lady Oxford, who told him, "a broken heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight...
I believe he was fond of treachery. . . ." But he regretted that his mother should "conspire against his wife with that wife's lover." After Caroline wrote Glenarvon (a novel about herself and Byron), its succes de scandale got her ostracized. She took to frequenting other literary persons, among them...