Lady Caroline Lamb and Miss Elizabeth Spence: Limits of Femininity in Early Nineteenth-Century Salon and Album Culture.
In November 1825 middle-class salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence contributed a short poem titled 'M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb' to Anna Birkbeck's album. Spence's choice of subject, Lady Caroline Lamb, was, in many ways, unusual. Coming from a very different world to Spence, the ar...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 36; pp. 1 - 27 |
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