Archives & Print Sources

ARCHIVES:

British Library: The Althorp, Lamb, and Melbourne Papers of the British Library, in Additional Manuscripts.

Castle Howard MSS: Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to her cousin, the 6th Countess of Carlisle, held in the archives of Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

Devonshire Manuscripts: Letters and other papers of the 5th and 6th Dukes of Devonshire held in the archive at Chatsworth, Derbyshire.

Hertfordshire Archives: Papers of the Lamb [Melbourne] family held in the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies Office, County Hall, Hertfordshire.

John Murray Archive: Letters and other papers of Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord and Lady Byron, and John Murray. National Library of Scotland.

New York Public Library: The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Oxford University: Abinger Collection and Papers of the Lovelace/Byron family on deposit with the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

University of Virginia: Washington Irving Collection, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.

Victoria and Albert Museum: The Forster Collection.

Yale University: The Osborne collection of Yale University’s Special Collections.

BIOGRAPHIES OF LADY CAROLINE LAMB:

Blyth, Henry. Caro: The Fatal Passion: The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972.

Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography. New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004.

Gribble, Francis. The Love Affairs of Lord Byron. London: Eveleigh Nash (Fawside House), 1910.

Jenkins, Elizabeth. Lady Caroline Lamb. London: Victor Gollancz, 1932.

Manchester, Sean. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Life of Lady Caroline Lamb. London: Gothic Press, 1992.

Normington, Susan. Lady Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman. London: House of Stratus, 2001.

Strickland, Margot. The Byron Women. London: P. Owen, 1974.

HISTORICAL FICTION FEATURING LCL:

Elsna, Hebe. The Love Match. New York: Beagle Books, 1971 (copyright 1967).

Hasler, John D. Memoirs--Lady Caroline Lamb. Xlibris, 2005.

Leslie, Doris. This for Caroline. London: Heinemann, 1964.

McDonald, Eva. Lord Byron's First Lover. Robert Hale Ltd., 1968. (Republished as Lady Caroline Lamb by the New English Library, London, 1973).

Morgan, Jude. Passion. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Nicole, Christopher. The Secret Memoirs of Lord Byron. London: Michael Joseph, 1978.

Prokosch, Frederick. The Missolonghi Manuscript. London: W.H. Allen, 1968.

SELECTED OTHER PRINT SOURCES:

Airlie, Mabell, Countess of. Lady Palmerston and Her Times. 2 vols. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.

Askwith, Betty. Piety and Wit: A Biography of Harriet, Countess Granville, 1785-1862. London: Collins, 1982.

Bessborough, Earl, and Arthur Aspinall. Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle. London: J. Murray, 1940.

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of. Conversations of Lord Byron. (1834). Ed. Ernest J. Lovell, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron's Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie Marchand. 12 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973-1995.

Calder-Marshall, Arthur. The Two Duchesses. London: Hutchinson, 1978.

Cecil, David. Melbourne. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954.

Chapman, Caroline, and Jane Dormer. Elizabeth and Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses. London: John Murray, 2002.

Clubbe, John. "Glenarvon Revised--and Revisited.” Wordsworth Circle 10 (1979):205-17.

Dallas, Robert C. Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, From the Year 1808 to the End of 1814. London: Charles Knight, 1824.

Douglass, Paul. The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

-----, and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson. The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009. 3 vols.

Dunckley, Henry. Lord Melbourne. 2nd ed. From the series Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890.

Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. New York: Knopf, 1999.

Elwin, Malcolm. Lord Byron's Family: Annabella, Ada, and Augusta 1816-1824. Ed. Peter Thomson. London: J. Murray, 1975.

------. Lord Byron's Wife. London: Macdonald, 1962.

Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. New York: Random House, 1998.

Foss, Kenelm. Here Lies Richard Brinsley Sheridan. London: Martin Secker, 1939.

Foster, Vere. The Two Duchesses. London: Blackie, 1898.

Gower, Henrietta Elizabeth Leveson. Hary-O: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish, 1796-1809. Ed. Sir George Leveson-Gower and Iris Palmer. London: John Murray, 1940.

------. Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville, 1810-1845. 2nd ed. Ed. Hon. F. Leveson Gower. 2 vols. London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894.

------. A Second Self: The Letters of Harriet Granville 1810-1845. Ed. Virginia Surtees. Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1990.

Gower, Iris Leveson. The Face without a Frown: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. London: Frederick Muller, 1944.

Graham, Peter. Don Juan and Regency England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

Granville, Leveson-Gower, First Earl. Private Correspondence of Earl Granville: 1781-1821. Ed. Castalia, Countess Granville. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1916.

Grebanier, Bernard. The Uninhibited Byron: An Account of his Sexual Confusion. New York: Crown, 1970.

Grosskurth, Phyllis. Byron: The Flawed Angel. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Hobhouse, John Cam (Lord Broughton). Byron's Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron. Ed. Peter W. Graham. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

Howell-Thomas, Dorothy. Lord Melbourne’s Susan. Old Woking: Gresham Books, 1978.

Kelsall, Malcolm. "The Byronic Hero and Revolution in Ireland: The Politics of Glenarvon.” The Byron Journal 9 (1981): 4-19.

Lady Caroline Lamb (a film) Dir. Robert Bolt. Perf. Sarah Miles, John Finch, Richard Chamberlain, Margaret Leighton, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills. Pulsar Productions, 1972.

Larman, Alexander. Byron's Women. London: Head of Zeus, 2018.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Baron. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton to His Wife, With Extracts from her MS “Autobiography,” and Other Documents, Published in Vindication of Her Memory. Ed. Louisa Devey. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.

------. The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, by his Son, With Portraits and Illustrations. London: K. Paul, Trench, 1883.

Lytton, Rosina. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A. E. Chalon. Ed. S. M. Ellis. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914.

Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl. The Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1913.

MacCarthy, Fiona. Byron: Life and Legend. London: John Murray, 2002.

Marchand, Leslie. Byron: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1957.

Marshall, Dorothy. Lord Melbourne. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.

Masters, Brian. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

Mayne, Ethel Colburn. Byron. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924.

------. The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

Medwin, Thomas. Conversations of Lord Byron. Revised with a New Preface by the Author for a New Edition, and annotated by Lady Byron . . . and others who Knew the Poet Personally. Ed. Ernest J. Lovell, Jr. Princeton University Press, 1966.

Melbourne, Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess. Byron's "Corbeau Blanc": The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne. Ed. Jonathan David Gross. Houston: Rice University Press, 1997.

Mitchell, Leslie G. Lord Melbourne: 1779-1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Moore, Doris Langley. The Late Lord Byron: Posthumous Dramas. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1961.

Moore, Thomas. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life. 2 vols. New York: J. J. Harper, 1830.

Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries, and Correspondence. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: William H. Allen & Co., 1863.

Nathan, Isaac. Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron: Containing and Entire New Edition of the Hebrew Melodies, With the Addition of Several Never Before Published; the Whole Illustrated with Critical, Historical, Theatrical, Political, and Theological Remarks, Notes, Anecdotes, Interesting Conversations and Observations, Made by that Illustrious Poet: Together with His Lordship's Autograph; also Some Original Poetry, Letter and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1829.

------, and Lord Byron. A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern. (1815-16). Ed. Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Norton, Caroline. The Letters of Caroline Norton to Lord Melbourne. Ed. James O. Hoge and Clark Olney. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974.

Olney, Clark. "Glenarvon Revisited.” University of Kansas City Review 22 (1955): 271-76.

Palmerston, Emily, Viscountess. [formerly Emily Cowper and Emily Lamb]. The Letters of Lady Palmerston: Selected and Edited from the Originals at Broadlands and Elsewhere. Ed. Tresham Lever. London: John Murray, 1957.

Paston, George [E. M. Symonds], and Peter Quennell. "To Lord Byron": Feminine Profiles Based Upon Unpublished Letters 1807-1824. London: John Murray, 1939.

Peach, Annette. "San fedele alla mia Biondetta': A Portrait of Byron Formerly Belonging to Lady Caroline Lamb.” Bodleian Library Record 14.4 (April 1993): 285-95.

Ponsonby, Sir John. The Ponsonby Family. London: The Medici Society, 1929.

Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama--Edward and Rosina, 1803-1836. London: Constable, 1931.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Ed. Cecil Price. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

Smiles, Samuel. A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray. 2 vols. London: J. Murray, 1891.

Soderholm, James. Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

------. "Lady Caroline Lamb: Byron's Miniature Writ Large." The Keats-Shelley Journal. 40 (1991): 24-46.

Stauffer, Andrew. “Byron, Medwin, and the False Fiend: Remembering ‘Remember Thee.’“ Studies in Bibliography 53 (2000): 265-76.

------. “An Early Pioneer.” Parents Voice (1985): 22-23.

Stuart, Dorothy Margaret. Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster, Afterwards Duchess of Devonshire, from her Unpublished Journals and Correspondence. London: Methuen, 1955.

Thomas, Elizabeth. [Bridget Bluemantle]. The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harold in Prose. 3 vols. London: A. K. Newman, 1815.

------. Purity of Heart, or the Ancient Costume, a tale, in on Volume, addressed to the author of Glenarvon. By an old wife of twenty years. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816.

Torrens, W. M. Memoirs of the Right Honourable William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. 2 vols. London: Macmillan and Company, 1878.

Victoria, Queen. The Girlhood of Queen Victoria: A Selection From Her Majesty’s Diaries Between the Years 1832 and 1840. Ed. Viscount Escher. 23 vols. London: John Murray, 1912.

Villiers, Marjorie. The Grand Whiggery. London: John Murray, 1939.

Vincent, E. R. Ugo Foscolo: An Italian in Regency England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953.

Wallace, Irving. The Nympho and Other Maniacs. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

Wilson, Frances, ed. Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. London and New York: Macmillan Press and St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Wilson, Harriette. Memoirs of Herself and Others. (1825). London: Peter Davies, 1929.

Wu, Duncan. "Appropriating Byron: Lady Caroline Lamb's A New Canto." Wordsworth Circle 26.3 (1995): 140-46.

Ziegler, Phillip. Melbourne: A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. New York: Knopf, 1976.