Charles Lamb

In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund

She applied to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was...

Financial disaster struck Mary and Charles Lamb and their family when their father's employer, Samuel Salt of the Inner Temple, the family benefactor, died.

These young men joked together about inflicting physical violence on ALB : Coleridge vowed to cut her to the Heart; Southey wrote that Lamb ought to set fire to her wig (a fictional object...

Charles and Mary Lamb set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of Coleridge at Keswick and the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson at Ambleside.

Charles and Mary Lamb embarked on their first trip abroad, heading for Paris.

During her engagement the future MCC travelled to Somerset and other western counties to meet her fiancé's relations. The couple spent their honeymoon at Enfield, Charles Cowden Clarke's birthplace and the scene of...

In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount. Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...

At the ages of twenty-five and fourteen, Mary Lamb and her brother Charles saw the sea for the first time when they sailed from London to Margate in Kent for the first designated holiday of...

MCC wrote a preface for this book, which includes accounts of Keats , Charles and Mary Lamb , Douglas Jerrold , and Dickens .

In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error...

In June-July 1806 ML reported to Sarah Stoddart that she was looking for a project to succeed the (still unfinished) Tales. She wanted her friend to set your brains to work and invent a...

ML 's last identified writing seems to be her five couplets of sardonic comment on her brother 's Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers, written about 1830.

Following her marriage on 5 July 1828, MCC was determined to earn some contribution to our family income. In pursuit of this goal she wrote an essay, My Arm Chair, and submitted it...

Mary Lamb and her brother Charles published a second collaborative work for children, Mrs Leicester's School; or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves, bearing the date of 1809.