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Charles Lamb
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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's mother and siblings cried over the text of her childhood autobiography, remembering old days. |
| 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... |
| 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, p. vii - xxxiii. xiii |
| 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 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| 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 |
| 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/. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 156 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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. 1: 1119 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Mary Hays | 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... |
| 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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