The Whole Disgraceful Truth Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb [Hardcover]

Byron's lover, Lady Caroline Lamb, has often been portrayed as 'monster'. Gathered here for the first time are letters to and from some of her most famous correspondents, among them The Prince of Wales and Walter Scott. Her letters glitter with quips, puns, and searing self-knowledge as she reveals 'the whole disgraceful truth' of her life.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Lady Caroline's Life and Acquaintances Who's Who * Chronology The Letters Childhood A Reluctant Adulthood Marriage Byron Life After Byron The Career of an Author Byron's Death Rational Quiet Afterword Notes References Index

'This new edition of Caroline Lamb's 'Letters' is a valuable resource and a vital complement to Douglass's impressive biography of Lamb. With the publication of the 'Letters' we can see the human side of Lamb as well as her version of the events that were so infamously portrayed in her novel Glenarvon. Meticulously edited, this collection lets the 'Byronic heroine' speak in her own voice and rounds out the portrait of a woman who is becoming increasingly important in the romantic canon.' Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University, author of Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Bront?s.

'In his masterfully developed, scrupulously well-informed, groundbreaking edition, Paul Douglass presents her correspondence from girlhood to dying days - an unrivaled cache of letters, cascading with passion and punctuated with outbursts of verse, that constitute a trove of inestimable historical value and irresistible entertainment.' Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University, editor of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and the poems and letters of Felicia Hemans

'This extraordinarily talented woman of letters now speaks for herself in an impressively researched volume, allowing us to understand a much maligned figure, as tormented as she was tormenting, in all of helóc