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...

MCC wrote a preface for this book, which includes accounts of Keats , Charles and Mary Lamb , Douglas Jerrold , and Dickens .

Charles and Mary Lamb set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of Coleridge at Keswick and the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson at Ambleside.

During her engagement the future MCC travelled to Somerset and other western counties to meet her fiancé's relations. The couple spent their honeymoon at Enfield, Charles Cowden Clarke's birthplace and the scene of...

Charles and Mary Lamb embarked on their first trip abroad, heading for Paris.

In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount. Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles 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...

These young men joked together about inflicting physical violence on ALB : Coleridge vowed to cut her to the Heart; Southey wrote that Lamb ought to set fire to her wig (a fictional object...

In 1806 Charles Lamb reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty.The next few years brought them close to starvation. FH waited until after her father's death before seeking aid from the Royal Literary Fund

She applied to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was...

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.