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24 de abr. de 2024 · Lord Byron, shortly before his brief, doomed marriage to her niece Annabella Milbanke, described Elizabeth Lamb, Lady Melbourne (known to the admiring young poet as Lady M), as ‘the best friend I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women’. Lady Holland, a rival hostess in Georgian London ...
1 de jul. de 2019 · The Author is very fair, analytical, & sometimes even justly opinionated. (at one point, deliciously- calling Lady M - a "Monster") At 247 pages, you will be sorry to reach the end. The infamous Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, comes off very mysterious, and calculus.
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- Colin Brown
8 de jun. de 2011 · Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne – the most famous political hostesses and society beauties of their day – are shown gathered around the witches’ cauldron alongside their friend, the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.
Elizabeth Lamb (née Milbanke), Viscountess Melbourne with Peniston Lamb as a child. by Samuel William Reynolds, or by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, after Sir Joshua Reynolds mezzotint, (1770-1771) 7 1/8 in. x 4 3/8 in. (180 mm x 111 mm) plate size; 18 1/8 in. x 12 1/8 in. (461 mm x 308 mm) paper size
The sculptor Anne Seymour Damer and the political hostesses Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire and Elizabeth Viscountess Melbourne are here depicted as the three witches from Macbeth. All three women loved amateur dramatics and were involved in productions at the private theatre at Althorp, Georgiana's country estate.
15 de ago. de 2018 · Lady M is the story of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1751-1818), a powerful and ambitious Georgian socialite and political hostess for the Whigs. Lady Melbourne is much less known than her son William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who became Prime Minister to William IV and Queen Victoria, or her intimate friend, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
8 de jun. de 2023 · Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.
