Record Number: 8685
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1823 and 1 May 1824
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1785
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:socialite, novelist, influential member of the Whig political elite
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[Memoirs]
Genre:Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (private library)
Source Information:
Record ID:8685
Source:Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby)
Editor:Paul Douglass
Title:The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:2006
Vol:n/a
Page:197
Additional Comments:
Letter to John Cab Hobhosue which Douglass dates 1824.
Citation:
Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb, (New York, 2006), n/a, p. 197, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8685, accessed: 10 October 2024
Additional Comments:
It is unclear when Lady Caroline would have actually read these memoirs which were burned on 17 May 1824. Douglass mentions several times that Lady Caroline read them, perhaps even a few years before she wrote this letter.