Charles Lamb

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...

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...

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...

Presumably during the course of this move, the Fenwick family (including the dog) arrived to stay for a week at the home of Charles and Mary Lamb , being apparently homeless.

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.

Charles and Mary Lamb left their lodgings in Chancery Lane for others at 16 Mitre Court Buildings, in the Inner Temple where they had grown up. They lived there for eight years.

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...

The Morning Chronicle printed a sonnet by Charles Lamb in praise of Blanch, heroine of SHB 's Country Neighbours.

Charles Lamb 's report that MH composed a piece of poetry for the tomb of her former mentor William Godwin was a fantasy, part of a letter written in 1815 which presents events in a...

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...

Over the course of her career EI met with great success both critically and in terms of financial reward. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. She also attracted some antifeminist...

She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...