Editing Lady Caroline Lamb (section)

==Literary career==
Lady Caroline Lamb was noted to have been involved in a few different literary circles that met in the Holland House, Lady Charleville's, Lord Ward's, Lord Lansdowne's and others of similar repute.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The queens of society. :By Grace and Philip Wharton [pseuds.] Illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle and the brothers Dalziel.|last=Thomson|first=A. T.|date=1861|publisher=New York|hdl = 2027/miun.aan5995.0001.001}}</ref>[[File:Lady Caroline Lamb by Eliza H. Trotter.jpg|thumb|left|''Lady Caroline Lamb'' by [[Eliza H. Trotter]], 1810s]]Lady Caroline's most famous work is ''[[Glenarvon]]'', a [[Gothic novel]] that was released in 1816 just weeks after Byron's departure from England. Although published anonymously, Lady Caroline's authorship was an open secret. It featured a thinly disguised pen-picture of herself and her former lover, who was painted as a war hero who turns traitor against [[Irish nationalism#Early nationalism|Irish nationalism]]. The book was notable for featuring the first version of the [[Byronic hero]] outside of Byron's own work as well as a detailed scrutiny of the [[Romantic period]] and, more specifically, the [[Ton (le bon ton)|Ton]].<ref>Dickson, Leigh Wetherall and Douglass, Paul (Eds.)"The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb." Pickering & Chatto (2009) Volume 1: Glenarvon: lii + 451; Volume 2: Graham Hamilton and Poems xxx + 229; Volume 3: Ada Reis, A Tale xx + 222.</ref> Lady Caroline included scathing [[Caricature|caricatures]] of several of those prominent society members.<ref name="scribblingwomen" /> One of them, [[Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey|the Countess of Jersey]], cancelled Lady Caroline's vouchers to [[Almack's]] in retribution for her characterisations. This was the opening salvo in a backlash that found Lady Caroline outcast from fashionable society:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org.uk/places/london/almacks.htm|title=Almack's Assembly Rooms|author1=Weinreb |author2=Gronow|date=21 February 2010|publisher=The Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos|access-date=21 February 2010|location=London, UK|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813161949/http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org.uk/places/london/almacks.htm|archive-date=13 August 2009}}</ref> although her sister-in-law, [[Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper]], got Lady Caroline readmitted to Almack's in 1819, her reputation never fully recovered.<ref name="Douglassbio" />

Byron responded to the novel; "I read ''Glenarvon'' too by Caro Lamb….God damn!" The book was a financial success that sold out several editions but was dismissed by critics as [[pulp magazine|pulp fiction]]. However, [[Goethe]] deemed it worthy of serious literary consideration.<ref>Hennig, John "Goethe's Klaggesang. Irisch." ''Monatshefte'', Vol. 41, No. 2" University of Wisconsin Press (1949) pp. 71–76</ref>

In 1819, Lady Caroline mimicked Byron's style in the [[narrative poem]] "A New Canto". Years before, Lady Caroline had impersonated Byron in a letter to his publishers to have them send her a portrait of Byron. It worked, and the tone and substance of her request fooled them into sending the painting.<ref name="scribblingwomen" /> She used that skill to respond to Byron's "[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan I and II]]". Lady Caroline was most concerned with the allusions Byron had made about her; for example, the line "Some play the devil—and then write a novel" from "Don Juan II".<ref name="Hary-O" /><ref name="Duncan. 1995" /> In "A New Canto", Lady Caroline wrote—as Byron—"I'm sick of fame; I'm gorged with it; so full I almost could regret the happier hour; When northern oracles proclaimed me dull." Byron never publicly responded to the poem. A reviewer of the time opined, in part; "The writer of this lively nonsense has evidently intended it as an imitation of Lord Byron.  It is a rhapsody from beginning to end."<ref name="Hary-O" /><ref>''Monthly Review New Series'' v. 94 (1821), 329. London</ref>

Lady Caroline published three additional novels during her lifetime: ''[[Graham Hamilton (novel)|Graham Hamilton]]'' (1822),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglass |first1=Paul |title=Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography |date=2004 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-6605-6 |page=238 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSgth8oaDPUC |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Ada Reis]]'' (1823), and ''Penruddock'' (1823).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglass |first1=Paul |title=Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography |date=2004 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-6605-6 |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSgth8oaDPUC |language=en}}</ref>