Charles Lamb

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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834

Connections

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Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
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Reception Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's name became almost synonymous with didactic writing for children. Indefensibly, it also became in time synonymous with active repression of children's imagination. Charles Lamb wrote indignantly of the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB met Charles Lamb and his sister Mary . Charles had already, in the privacy of a letter, railed at the cursed Barbauld Crew whose didactic tales had driven out old, wild tales,
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
446
Science...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
Her biographer William McCarthy, speculating on causes for this reversal of former admiration, mentions Coleridge's painful feelings for his mother and his wife, his leaving the Dissenters for the Church of England, and the predominance...
Violence Anna Letitia Barbauld
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...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Around 1801-2, Charles and Mary Lamb were said to have succeeded in talking [George Dyer ] into love with EOB , but to have been unsuccessful in talking her into love with him. This...
Friends, Associates Mary Matilda Betham
As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...
Health Mary Matilda Betham
MMB had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey reported...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Matilda Betham
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...
Literary responses Mary Matilda Betham
In 1833 Charles Lamb wrote that MMBhad the most feminine soul of all our poet- and prose-esses.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
233
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue 's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the...
Literary responses Mary Matilda Betham
Charles Lamb pronounced MMB 's poem (before publication) to be very delicately pretty as to sentiment,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
while Charlotte Bedingfield felt it would considerably raise MMB 's literary fame.
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
156
Allan Cunningham called it full...
Literary responses Mary Matilda Betham
It appears that late in life she showed Charles Lamb a collection of her letters to her family. He praised them as a widow's cruise: that is, an inexhaustible supply of riches from a...

Timeline

29 December 1794: The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition...

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29 December 1794

The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition views) printed a sonnet, Mrs Siddons, which was attributed to Coleridge , but was actually written by Charles Lamb .

By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...

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By June 1796

Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet titled Sonnets from Various Authors: four each by himself, Southey , Charles Lamb , and Charles Lloyd , two by Charlotte Smith , and one each by seven more writers including Anna Seward .

13 December 1800: William Godwin's five-act verse tragedy Antonio...

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13 December 1800

William Godwin 's five-act versetragedyAntonio was performed for the first and last time at Drury Lane . It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.

10 December 1806: Charles Lamb's farce Mr H— opened at Drury...

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10 December 1806

Charles Lamb 's farceMr H— opened at Drury Lane . Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.

By February 1811: The craze for sentiment was extended (not...

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By February 1811

The craze for sentiment was extended (not without irony) to writing for children, in Felissa, or the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment written by Charles Lamb .

28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...

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28 December 1817

The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats might meet the eminent William Wordsworth .

January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...

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January 1823

Charles Lamb published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.

August 1830: Edward Moxon's publishing firm in London...

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August 1830

Edward Moxon 's publishing firm in London published as its first book Charles Lamb 's Album Verses.

24 April 1833: The Wife by James Sheridan Knowles opened...

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24 April 1833

The Wife by James Sheridan Knowles opened on stage in London; it was published this year with a Prologue and Epilogue by Charles Lamb .

Texts

Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Mrs Leicester’s School. M. J. Godwin, 1808.
Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Poetry for Children. M. J. Godwin, 1809.
Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Tales from Shakespear. M. J. Godwin, 1807.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press, 1975.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, Methuen, 1905.