Mad, Bad and
Dangerous to Know
The
Life of Lady Caroline Lamb
A Biography by Seăn Manchester
Of all the affairs that shook an epoch notorious for its
scandals there was none more tempestuous than the liaison between Lady Caroline
Lamb and Lord Byron. There can be little astonishment, then, why the subject of
Lady Caroline Lamb continues to
fascinate. Seán Manchester’s unique biography sheds much light on a life that,
together with Lord Byron’s, dazzled and dismayed London’s high society at the
height of the Romantic Age in nineteenth century England. Gothic Press is,
therefore, delighted to make available a quality hardcover edition of this
splendid work, illustrated throughout – including many portraits of Lord Byron
and Lady Caroline Lamb – that, by individual request, will be signed and
dedicated by the author who is directly related to Lord Byron owing to the
poet’s only son being his great, great grandfather.
“The author and the topic he
writes about are made for one another which should come as no surprise for Seán
Manchester is directly descended from the poet Byron and played as a child amid
the sombre trees of Newstead Abbey Park where lived his grandparents and where
stands in semi-ruin the Gothic abode of his illustrious ancestor.”
~ Diana Brewester, Highgate
Byron Society, London, England
“Seán Manchester’s welcome
biography of Lady Caroline Lamb brings the best news for the academic world. I
feel that he is the only scholar who can write a revealing book on such a
personality.”
~ Dr Devendra P Varma,
International Byron Society, Canada
“I was very interested to read of
Seán Manchester’s progress in discovering about Caroline’s strange activities.”
~ Lady Brocket, Brocket Hall,
Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England
“This handsomely produced book,
written with ardour, is the result of intensive research into family archives.
Well documented, with extracts from letters and a valuable bibliography, the
narrative recreates the spirit of the times and the character portrait of
Caroline Lamb emerges vibrant with life. The author evokes the atmosphere of
the very chamber in Brocket Hall which Caroline had turned into a shrine to
Lord Byron, and where she penned her letters, wrote poems or played upon the
harpsichord. As time effaced the memory of Caroline, several uncanny incidents
continued to occur at the Hall. There were hauntings by a pale apparition of a
woman in rustling robe playing Chopin on the piano as the chandelier swung from
the carved roof. At other times a tinkling music resonated like angelic notes
of a harpsichord at dead of night wafting on the wind from afar. This biography
reproduces her image as a pensive young girl, ‘fascinating’ according to Byron,
an untamed gazelle, delightful although impossible, delicate and daring, naďve
yet witty, unstable but extreme in everything.”
~ Review extract from The
Byron Journal, The Byron Society, England
Author Seán Manchester at
Newstead Abbey with a portrait of his illustrious ancestor.
“And theirs was the wealth and the fullness of Fame,
And mine to inherit too haughty a name;
And theirs were the times and the
triumphs of yore,
And mine to regret, but renew them no
more.
Illustrated with unique photographs, including Lord Byron’s coffin
in its vault,
and Lady Caroline’s forgotten resting place, this hardcover
edition is the last
breath of the Romantic Movement ~ and only biography of its kind
in print.
Price (UK): Ł21.00
(Outside UK:
Ł26.00 English pounds)
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