qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Charles Lamb
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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | 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 |
| Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | In 1833 Charles Lamb
wrote that MMBhad the most feminine soul of all our poet- and prose-esses. qtd. in Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 233 |
| Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | Charles Lamb
pronounced MMB
's poem (before publication) to be very delicately pretty as to sentiment, qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. qtd. in Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 156 |
| Literary responses | Mary Lamb | 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Williams | Plumptre
likens SW
to the essayist Elia, that is, to Charles Lamb
. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii. xiii |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 737 |
| Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
| Author summary | Mary Lamb | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Lamb | 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... |
| Publishing | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
contributed regularly to periodicals including the Cornhill Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, the Fortnightly Review, New Quarterly Magazine, Saint Pauls, Temple Bar, and the British Quarterly Review. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. 1: 1119 |
| Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | 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... |
| Publishing | Mary Lamb | Mary Jane Godwin
(whom Charles
and Mary Lamb
disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear
: Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though... |
| Reception | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Morning Chronicle printed a sonnet by Charles Lamb
in praise of Blanch, heroine of SHB
's Country Neighbours. Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press, 1997. 487 |
| 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... |
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