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‘Wild Originality’: the Romantic writings of Lady Caroline Lamb
Author(s) -
March Rosemary
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00122.x
Subject(s) - romance , originality , lyrics , poetry , literature , romanticism , psychology , art , psychoanalysis , social psychology , creativity
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), author of three Romantic novels, two long poems and several shorter lyrics was a Romantic sensation, and is probably still best known for her affair with Lord Byron. Unfortunately, Lamb the ‘Byron woman’, a figure remembered only as one of Byron's greatest ‘fans’, has subsumed Lamb the Romantic writer.