I am afraid Lady Caroline
and her novel will experience
less public indignation than they deserve. I had some conversation on the subject
yesterday with Rogers, who talked very
properly and rationally.
Lady Caroline Lamb [née Ponsonby] (1785-1828)
Daughter of the third earl of Bessborough; she married the Hon. William Lamb (1779-1848)
and fictionalized her infatuation with Lord Byron in her first novel, Glenarvon (1816).
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular Pleasures of Memory (1792), Columbus (1810), Jaqueline (1814), and Italy (1822-28).