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Lady Caroline Lamb

1785 - 1828

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Lady Caroline Lamb (née Ponsonby; 13 November 1785 – 25 January 1828) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Her husband was the Honourable William Lamb, who after her death became 2nd Viscount Melbourne and British prime minister. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lady Caroline Lamb is the 3,209th most popular writer (up from 3,210th in 2019), the 2,604th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,328th in 2019) and the 288th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 3,209 out of 7,302. Before her are Maria Wirtemberska, António Ferreira, Ama Ata Aidoo, Galaktion Tabidze, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. After her are Ivo Brešan, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Jackie Collins, Goffredo Mameli, Edith Pargeter, and Susanna Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 39. Before her are Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Agustín Gamarra, Edward Bransfield, August Böckh, Vicente López y Planes, and Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau. After her are José Miguel Carrera, August Immanuel Bekker, Martín Miguel de Güemes, Francisco Antonio Pinto, Anna Sundström, and Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt. Among people deceased in 1828, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 26. Before her are Richard Parkes Bonington, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gilbert Stuart, Charlotte Buff, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, and Leandro Fernández de Moratín. After her are François Isaac de Rivaz, Jacques Lauriston, Rachel Jackson, Christian August Lorentzen, Eise Eisinga, and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 2,605 out of 8,785. Before her are Gordon Jackson (1923), Glen Matlock (1956), Tom Hiddleston (1981), Edward Vernon (1684), Lewis Gilbert (1920), and Damien Hirst (1965). After her are Jackie Collins (1937), John Owen (1616), Edith Pargeter (1913), William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Susanna Hall (1583), and Charles Kingsley (1819).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Caroline Lamb ranks 288. Before her are Frederick Denison Maurice (1805), Joseph Delaney (1945), William Congreve (1670), Edwin Arnold (1832), William Langland (1332), and Hamnet Shakespeare (1585). After her are Jackie Collins (1937), Edith Pargeter (1913), Susanna Hall (1583), Charles Kingsley (1819), Andrew Lang (1844), and John Henry Mackay (1864).

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