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1 de ago. de 2018 · At a time of emerging women leaders, the life of Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, the shrewdest political hostess of the Georgian period, is particularly intriguing. It was Byron who called her ‘Lady M’ and it was Byron’s tempestuous and very public affair with Elizabeth’s daughter-in-law Lady Caroline Lamb that was the scandal of the age.
- Colin Brown
31 de oct. de 2011 · Viscountess Melbourne was married to Sir Penniston Lamb MP and was an ‘enthusiastic manager of her husband’s political interests’. While she had been friends with Damer, the foremost female sculptor of her day, since the early 1770s, her friendship with Georgiana was fairly recent.
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.
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- Colin Brown
23 de abr. de 2024 · Her only consolation is her friend since childhood, William Lamb, son of the great society hostess, Lady Elizabeth Melbourne. William is heartbroken over a rejected offer of marriage and Alexandrina is heartbroken over the fact that it was not made to her.
