Byron's Corbeau Blanc: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne, 1751-1818 - Couverture souple

Melbourne, Lady

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 085323633X ISBN 13 : 9780853236337

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Offering a re-creation of the late-Georgian age, this is an annotated collection of the correspondence of Lady Melbourne, including her controversial letters to Lord Byron, which reveal her significant influence on his work - not least in "Don Juan", in which she appears as Lady Pinchbeck. Long before the correspondence between Byron and Lady Melbourne began, she had impressed her contemporaries as a woman of no small significance. Married off to the son of a wealthy lawyer, she used her superior education, attention to detail and business acumen to manage her amiable but dissolute husband's affairs. A leading agriculturalist, she was the Duchess of Devonshire's closest confidante as well as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1780-84). At her residence in Piccadilly she entertained a brilliant company that included Charles James Fox, George Canning and Charles Grey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 085323633X
• ISBN 13: 9780853236337
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Éditeur: Gross Jonathan David
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