3 Quotes by Paul Douglass

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it “made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent.” These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.

In her will, Lady Caroline bequeathed Lady Morgan the picture of Byron that she had coveted since the days of her first stormy separation from the poet who had inspired her to become that marvelous thing: a lady writer.

Caroline’s beloved Brocket Hall has been transformed by a Hong Kong developer into a hotel and conference center. There are rumoured sightings of her ghost in the hotel, at which, of course, one scoffs. Yet, walking the road from the train stop in Welwyn to the Hertfordshire Records Office one gray January morning, I still find it hard to believe she is entirely gone.