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Lady Caroline Lamb's Heart-Break Notebook

Lady Caroline Lamb's Heart-Break Notebook

"I will kneel & be torn from your feet before I will give you up…"

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Jillian Hess
Feb 13, 2023
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I’ve wanted to write about this particular notebook since I first saw it in 2010 at the National Library of Scotland. It’s just so shocking, so dramatic, so illicit! I figured, what better time to share a notebook that chronicles a disastrous romance than Valentine’s Day?

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Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1827) was a socialite. Wealthy and be…

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