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  The Queen Caroline affair: 1820
Caroline was twenty-six years old, of stocky build and little to her credit apart from a fine head of hair.
Caroline was cleared of the gravest charge of adultery but her behaviour in other respects was open to 'very unfavourable interpretations'.
Caroline chose to return to England to claim her rights, requesting that the Royal Yacht be made ready at Calais to receive her on 3 June.
www.historyhome.co.uk /c-eight/people/caroline.htm   (1847 words)

  
 Caroline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caroline, Princess of Hanover, heir presumptive to the throne of Monaco
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of American president John F. Kennedy.
Caroline, a town in Tompkins County, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caroline   (118 words)

  
 Lord Byron's Lovers: Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Ponsonby Lamb was the daughter of the earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, and the niece of the duchess of Devonshire.
Caroline and William had married when she was 17 and the union began happily enough.
Caroline was a vivacious and flirtatious woman and Byron suspected she wanted him for the notoriety and to feed her vanity.
englishhistory.net /byron/lclamb.html   (3533 words)

  
 Focus On... Cartoons
Caroline loved going out and about to the theatre and opera, where she was often seen on her own.
Caroline herself enjoyed being the focus of such attention, especially when she was so ignored by her husband.
The Queen Caroline Affair, as it became known, was a particularly significant threat to the monarchy.
www.learningcurve.gov.uk /FocusOn/cartoons/Your/cbackground.htm   (1210 words)

  
 Regency Personalities - Lady Caroline Lamb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She is best known for her tempestuous affair with the poet Byron, and oft quoted for coining him 'mad bad and dangerous to know,' It was perhaps a phrase as appropriate to apply to herself as Byron.
Caroline was born in 1785, the third child of four and only daughter of an Irish peer, Lord Duncannon, and his wife Lady Henrietta, daughter of the first Earl Spencer.
It was the creed that all society lived by at the time, and certainly Caro would have known of the affairs her mother, aunt, uncle and other prominent members of society indulged in.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/regency/caro.html   (884 words)

  
 Queen Caroline Affair
Caroline had been informed that Lady Jersey was George's mistress, so things got off to a bad start when Caroline was greeted into England by none other than Lady Jersey.
Caroline, for her part, was not in the least impressed by George.
This state of affairs, broken by a non-proven case that she had produced an illegitimate son in 1805, carried on until 1814 when Caroline, having had her annual income increased from 22,000 to 50,000 pounds, took to travel on the Continent.
www.geocities.com /geotassie/caroline.html   (1992 words)

  
 §3. "Shirley". XII. The Brontës. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was, therefore, in a mood of disillusionment that, after the bravura of the first chapters, the new story was continued, and very soon, coming nearer, though with hesitating steps, to the past, it is subdued to the mood.
Caroline’s affair ends happily—perhaps a necessity of mid-Victorian fiction—Mrs.
Beautiful as is Caroline’s love-story, it is of another order of art altogether from that of the easy masterpiece—possibly of an even rarer order.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/223/1203.html   (554 words)

  
 Learn more about Caroline in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The American steamboat Caroline, which was being used to supply Canadian rebels, was burnt on American territory by Canadian forces on December 29, 1837, exacerbating tensions between the two nations.
Caroline is also one of the Line Islands of Kiribati.
Radio Caroline was a long running UK pirate radio station.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ca/caroline.html   (140 words)

  
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Caroline's father, Thomas Sheridan, died when she was eight years old, leaving the family in serious financial problems.
In 1831 Caroline met Lord Melbourne, the Home Secretary, and he arranged for George Norton to be appointed as a magistrate in the Lambeth Division of the Metropolitan Police Courts, with the generous salary of £1,000 a year.
Caroline argued that under the present law, a father had absolute rights and a mother no rights at all, whatever the behaviour of the husband.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wnorton.htm   (2281 words)

  
 Caroline Affair. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On the night of Dec. 29, 1837, a small group of British and Canadians loyal to the Upper Canadian government crossed the river to the U.S. side where the Caroline was moored, loosed her, set fire to her, and sent her over the falls.
Americans on the border were aroused to intense anti-British feeling, and soldiers under Gen. Winfield Scott were rushed to the scene to prevent violent American action.
The affair passed over, though it had an aftermath, when one of the men who had taken part in the attack boasted of that fact when he was in the United States and was arrested as a criminal.
www.bartleby.com /65/ca/CarolineAf.html   (258 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : The Caroline Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After the Caroline was set adrift beacon lights were seen on the Canadian side, and cheering was heard, and it was not doubted that the assailants belonged to the British force at Chippewa.
It appears from every account that the expedition was sent to capture the Caroline when she was expected to be found on the British ground of Navy island, and that it was only owing to the orders of the rebel leader being disobeyed, that she was not so found.
Of these the case of the Caroline is the principal; it has occupied the public mind for nearly five years, and what is called a settlement of it is expected, and indeed without it there is reason to apprehend that there would be a general indisposition to settle any thing else.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britian/br-1842d.htm   (5322 words)

  
 Lamb, Caroline (1785-1828)
In 1810 she had a liaison with Sir Godfrey Webster and in March 1812 she started an affair with Lord Byron, of whom she said that he was "mad, bad and dangerous to know".
London society was well aware of their affair and Caroline made several scenes after Byron put an end to it.
Caroline sent him some of her public hair (August, 1812) and she also threathened to kill herself with a knife at a party (July, 1813).
www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p006618.htm   (331 words)

  
 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Caroline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Patriots hired Caroline to transport supplies to their base, and so she was hacked out of the ice on December 28.
Americans were incensed by Britain's violation of American sovereignty and General Winfield Scott was dispatched to maintain calm; nonetheless Caroline was avenged in the burning of Sir Robert Peel in May 1837.
Caroline ran aground before going over Niagara Falls, and her engine and figurehead were eventually salvaged and preserved in the Buffalo Historical Society.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_017600_caroline.htm   (329 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - The Archers - Backstage - Charles and Caroline Chat
Caroline is a much more recent resident of Ambridge, arriving in 1999 to play feisty Siobhan - her first radio role.
Caroline: They all pose their own kind of challenge, and so each one requires a different technique...
Caroline: It's certainly quite exhausting playing these darker and deeper scenes, but once the recording session is over, I'm able to relax in front of the telly.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/archers/backstage/chat_charles_caroline_transcript.shtml   (2288 words)

  
 Timeline
Caroline falls in love with William at the age of 12.
December: Caroline is moved to London owing to the serious deterioration of her health.
January 26: Death of Caroline at Melbourne House in the presence of Caro-George.
www.stormpages.com /carolinelamb/timeline.html   (486 words)

  
 Lord Byron: Lovers - Lady Caroline Lamb
For her part, Caroline never forgot Byron and considered him the grandest passion of her life.
Though Caroline was instantly infatuated, she at first refused to all Byron wished.
They soon began an incestuous affair whether in London or, in July and August, at Augusta's home near Newmarket while her husband was away; the exact date is not known.
www.englishhistory.net /lclamb.html   (3575 words)

  
 The Divorce Trial of Queen Caroline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caroline’s cause was taken up by anyone opposed to the crown in general, to George in particular, and even by women’s rights advocates.
Caroline was described by Princess Lieven as “quite mad, and what surprises me is that they don’t question the witnesses about that, or at least ask her doctor.
In spite of Caroline’s bidding an acquaintance during the trial to, “Tell the King I am very well, and that I shall live some years to plague him,”101 her final run-in with her husband proved to be too much even for her.
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/Mouledoux.html   (3415 words)

  
 Online Caroline
At certain points in your relationship with Caroline (and with David, when he returns) these two men will need to carry out certain tasks which, on the face of it, may appear to you to be anti-social or even criminal.
They are simply doing their job, ensuring that Caroline and David and you all get what you want from this online relationship.
Since this site ask you to interact with Caroline by choosing various options like her clothes, and what she is going to eat, I am guessing that it is probably pre-recorded and depending upon which option you choose, you would get those images.
www.btinternet.com /~virtuous/planetgrrlnetjunkies/internetjunkiearticles/onlinecaroline.htm   (746 words)

  
 Gladden, 'Shelley's Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant' - Reading Shelley's ...
Percy Shelley's satire of the Queen Caroline affair, Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant.
Queen Caroline's two bodies—her real, physical self, and her textual body which is anatomized, pathologized, and pornographized throughout countless arms of the radical press—coalesce in the image of the symbolic revolutionary whose politicized physicality compromises the constitutional power of King George and his court.
In Queen Caroline, Shelley recognizes the political implications of sexual transgression, for in her status as an oppositional icon she demonstrates the power of the perverse erotic body to intrude upon the political process by exposing the problematic nature of an entrenched, oppressive regime.
www.rc.umd.edu /praxis/interventionist/gladden/gladden.html   (2873 words)

  
 The Problem With Relativity by John Sokol
Caroline, in her turn, has told me that this one question, more than anything else, gives my life a sense of plot.
I haven't seen Caroline at the university lately because she took her senior class to Washington for some literary reason.
Last night after you fell asleep, I heard you saying, 'Caroline, Caroline.' Is she someone you know?" Janice says this with her head bent over the vegetable bin, where she is rearranging heads of lettuce to make room for the carrots and peppers.
www.the-manhattanite.com /problem_with_relativity_john_sokol.htm   (1802 words)

  
 American Beauty.
Caroline regarded her career as the most important thing in her life, above her husband and daughter.
Caroline's high regard for her career and the fact that she no longer loved Lester, led her to have the affair with Buddy.
Before Caroline's affair, Lester knew that he could never be with Angela because he was married.
www.coursework.info /i/47097.html   (466 words)

  
 Science Fiction Book Reviews
Caroline, who aspires to be a composer, is instead forced into a loveless marriage with a much older man. But Nemo will soon miraculously resurface in their lives, after an underground escape from his South Pacific island that takes him all the way to Iceland!
Caroline's explorer husband has been long lost in the arctic, and she uses her new freedom to accompany Nemo and a British balloonist on a five-week trip across wildest Africa.
On this expedition, Nemo and Caroline realize that they are fated for each other, but also that they must restrain their impulses until the end of the seven-year wait to declare Caroline's husband legally dead.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue247/books.html   (1031 words)

  
 Hyperion Books
At the end of William's life, Caroline confronts her sorrow, anger, and odd flashes of relief and feelings of rebirth.
Discuss what Caroline means by being "a prisoner of her secret." (page 37).
Consider the idea that for Caroline, "everything was suspended," and trace how this is conveyed in the story.
www.hyperionbooks.com /readingguide.asp?ISBN=0786887613   (1184 words)

  
 Display Reviews By Student   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The story focuses on Caroline Masters, a woman who left her affluent family in New Hampshire in pursuit of a law degree.
Her 22 year old niece, Brett, is accused of murder and as "super lawyer/judge" Caroline's family asks for her assistance in clearing Brett's name.
The book is full of chapters of flashbacks, like the affair between Caroline's mother and a family friend, her mother's suicidal death, a summer lover and his disappearance, and a baby she gave up for adoption.
www.nya.org /book/StudentView.asp?Stu=56&Grade=11   (146 words)

  
 Arkansas Online : Previous Features / Investigations
Because people throughout Northeast Arkansas were gossiping about the affair, Caroline believes she couldn't have made friends at any school in the area.
McLarty, who is now the board's chairman, wanted to know the date school administrators learned of Jean's relationship with Caroline; their actions from that date to the date of Jean's suspension; the date Walnut Ridge officials notified the state department of Jean's suspension; and the date they notified the department of Jean's conviction.
Caroline says she no longer feels anything for Jean and she has forgiven her parents for stopping the affair.
www.ardemgaz.com /prev/code/day2c.asp   (1602 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caroline had one son out of wedlock with Victor Kiriakis and Shawn and Caroline adopted two children.
Sami had an "affair" with Lucas Roberts and had a son William Roberts and Sami was also breifly "married" to Austin Reed.
The Child of Caroline's affair with Victor Kiriakis is Bo Brady.
www.koolpages.com /onlylove/bradytree.htm   (353 words)

  
 All About Romance: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" - Lord Byron, The Original Byronic Hero
One of the members of the group was Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of William Lamb, later to be Viscount Melbourne and Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister.
Lady Caroline was willful and more than a little bit wild and literally threw herself at Lord Byron.
They had a passionate affair that was an open scandal, but Byron quickly grew tired of Lady Caroline, who had a propensity for causing scenes and throwing fits in public.
www.likesbooks.com /byron.html   (1008 words)

  
 CNN.com - arts & style - Entrepreneur sells vintage clothing from Internet closets - November 2, 2000
These closets belong to Caroline Keating, a 27-year-old Internet entrepreneur who connects new buyers with old clothes.
Caroline's Closets is based in Miami, and the enterprise is a family venture.
Now that her business is catching on, Caroline Keating is opening her "closet" in Japan, where she says there is a ready-made market for vintage Americana.
archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/fashion/11/02/vintage.clothing   (572 words)

  
 ALL ABOUT ROMANCE reviews The Royal Physician's Visit by Per Olov Enquist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Caroline Mathilde, just fifteen when she is sent to Denmark, is immature herself, and hardly someone who could be of any help to her husband.
Struensee is the chosen one, and despite his lukewarm reception of the idea, he eventually agrees to help the King, and ends up changing his fate by wanting to change Denmark.
Struensee soom becomes the real power behind the useless King, and embarks upon a love affair with Caroline Mathilde, who has already borne Christian a son and heir, product of their less-than-meager sex life.
www.likesbooks.com /claudia136.html   (586 words)

  
 Caroline Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Finding her docked at Fort Schlosser, New York (near the current Power Authority intakes), they seized her, towed her into the current, set her afire and cast her adrift over Niagara Falls, killing one American (Amos Durfee) in the process.
This incident has been used to establish the principle of "anticipatory self-defense" in international politics, which holds that military action may be justified by the mere threat of armed attack.
The Caroline Case : Anticipatory Self-Defence in Contemporary International Law
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caroline_Affair   (333 words)

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