Glenarvon

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Glenarvon is a scandalous 1816 Gothic political novel by Lady Caroline Lamb, best known for its thinly veiled and unflattering portrayal of her former lover Lord Byron and high society.

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Glenarvon canonical 8
Glenarvon (1816) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gothic novel
novel
political novel
author Lady Caroline Lamb
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
genre Gothic fiction
political fiction
roman à clef
hasCharacterBasedOn Lord Byron
members of London high society
hasForm three-volume novel
hasInfluenceOn public image of Lord Byron
hasLegacy example of scandal fiction in the Romantic period
hasMotiveForWriting response to affair with Lord Byron
hasReception controversial at time of publication
hasStyle melodramatic
sensationalist
hasSubgenre roman à clef about Byron
society novel
hasSubject aristocratic society
personal revenge through fiction
hasTheme Irish rebellion
betrayal
political intrigue
romantic obsession
social scandal
inspiredBy affair between Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Romanticism
mainCharacter Calantha
Lord Glenarvon
mediaType print
narrativePerspective third-person narrative
notableFor scandalous depiction of high society
thinly veiled portrayal of Lord Byron
originalLanguage English
partOf Romanticism
surface form: British Romantic literature
portrays British aristocracy
Lord Byron
publicationDate 1816
publicationPlace London, England
surface form: London
publisher Henry Colburn
setting Ireland
early 19th century
timePeriodOfWork Regency era

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Lady Caroline Lamb notableWork Glenarvon
Lady Caroline Lamb publicationYearOf Glenarvon
this entity surface form: Glenarvon (1816)
Caroline Ponsonby Lamb wrote Glenarvon
Caroline Ponsonby notableWork Glenarvon