i. p. 112). The separation did not take place till 1825.
Throughout 1812-14 Lady Caroline continued to write to Byron, at first
asking for interviews. Two of her last letters to him, written
apparently on the eve of his leaving England, in 1816, are worth
printing, though they increase the mystery of 'Glenarvon'. (See Appendix
III., 4 and 5.)
In Isaac Nathan's 'Fugitive Pieces' (1829), a section is devoted to
"Poetical Effusions, Letters, Anecdotes, and Recollections of Lady
Caroline Lamb."
Lady Caroline wrote three novels: 'Glenarvon' (1816); 'Graham Hamilton'
(1822); and 'Ada Reis; a Tale' (1823). 'Glenarvon', apart from its
biographical interest, is unreadable.
"I do not know," writes C. Lemon to Lady H. Frampton ('Journal of Mary
Frampton', pp. 286, 287), "all the characters in 'Glenarvon', but I
will tell you all I do know. I am not surprised at your being struck
with a few detached passages; but before you have read one volume, I
think you will doubt at which end of the book you began. There is no
connection between any two ideas in the book, and it seems to me to
have been written as the sages of Laputa composed their works.
'Glenarvon' is Lord Byron; 'Lady Augusta,' the late Duchess of
Devonshire; 'Lady Mandeville'--I think it is Lady Mandeville, but the
lady who dictated Glearvon's farewell letter to Calantha--is Lady
Oxford. This letter she really dictated to Lord Byron to send to Lady
Caroline Lamb, and is now very much offended that she has treated the
matter so lightly as to introduce it into her book.
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