Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
died in his lodgings at Edmonton north of London, apparently of erysipelas, a skin infection caused by a graze on his face from a fall in the street three days before Christmas. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 373 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
, poet and essayist, much younger brother of the writer Mary Lamb
, was born in Crown Office Row, the Inner Temple, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Charles Lamb |
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... |
Travel | Mary Lamb | At the ages of twenty-five and fourteen, Mary Lamb
and her brother Charles
saw the sea for the first time when they sailed from London to Margate in Kent for the first designated holiday of... |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
and her brother Charles
published a second collaborative work for children, Mrs Leicester's School; or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves, bearing the date of 1809. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3rd ser. 15 (1808): 444 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Seventeen-year-old Charles Lamb
(brother of Mary
), on a visit to his grandmother Mary Field
at Blakesware Manor (who was now mortally ill with breast cancer), fell in love with a girl living nearby who... |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
and her brother Charles
collaboratively published Poetry for Children: Entirely Original; of this, as of their other books, Charles said he had written one-third only, and that the issue of ascription was... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary 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. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 74 |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
's Works were published. A number of Mary Lamb
's poems appeared there, without her name. Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell. 187 |
Residence | Mary Lamb | 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. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 75 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Residence | Edna Lyall | EL
moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 53 |
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. |
Education | Carola Oman | 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 |
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