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The Whole Disgraceful Truth - Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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The Whole Disgraceful Truth - Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
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Lady Caroline Lamb was described by her lover, Lord Byron, as
having a heart like a "little volcano" and as "the cleverest most
agreeable, absurd, amiable, perplexing, dangerous fascinating
little being that lives now or ought to have lived 2000 years ago."
She wrote witty and revealing letters to fellow writers like Lady
Morgan, William Godwin, Robert Malthus, and Amelia Opie, and to her
publishers John Murray and Henry Colburn, to her cousins Hart,
Georgiana, and Harrio, as well as to her mother, husband, son, and
lovers. In those letters, she told her correspondents "the whole
disgraceful truth" of her drug and alcohol addictions, her affairs
with Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, Lord Byron, and Michael Bruce, and
her jealousy of her cousin Georgiana (whom William Lamb had
"adored" before proposing to Caroline). She also revealed her
efforts to make a happy life for her mentally retarded, epileptic
son, Augustus, and her determination to become a respected writer
of fiction and poetry.
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