Charles Lamb

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.

Charles Lamb 's Works were published. A number of Mary Lamb 's poems appeared there, without her name.

Mary and Charles Lamb moved with their parents and their aunt from their beloved Inner Temple to a shared house nearby at 7 Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn.

ML is still known primarily as the sister of the essayist Charles Lamb , and as the central character in a painful and sensational story. She was, however, the lead author in her three collaborations...

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , spent six weeks confined to a lunatic asylum at Hoxton on account of mental illness.

Sarah Burton observes that Charles Lamb 's poem Written a twelvemonth after the Events (of 27 May 1796), which he thought (and expected Coleridge to think) the best piece of writing he had yet produced...

Mary Lamb wrote in a letter from the asylum (as transcribed by Charles ): I have no bad terrifying dreams—which suggests that she had been having this kind of dream in the recent past.

Burton writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles 's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth 's contribution to...

John Lamb, father of Mary and Charles died after years of encroaching senility; this enabled the brother and sister to live together once again.

ML 's letters were edited together with those of her brother Charles , by Edwin J. Marrs, Jr , in 1975-8. Despite extensive searching, however, Mary's surviving letters are hugely outnumbered by those from Charles...

Mary Lamb underwent another sojourn in the lunatic asylum: her brother Charles wrote in mid-June about her being from home.

In early 1805 it seems, after Charles Lamb had already produced a children's book for the Godwins' new Juvenile Library , Mary Jane Godwin asked ML (who was not known as an author, though she...

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

Our Village was praised by Christopher North (John Wilson) , Felicia Hemans , Elizabeth Barrett (who called Mitford here a sort of prose Crabbe in the sun and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...

The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott 's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun 's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood