Mary Lamb
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Standard Name: Lamb, Mary,, 1764 - 1847
Birth Name: Mary Anne Lamb
Nickname: Polly
Pseudonym: Sempronia
Used Form: Mary Anne 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 with Charles (Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, 1807, Mrs Leicester's School, 1808, and a book of verses for children) and sole author of a strongly feminist essay.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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 |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
's mother was born Barbara Betham, a clergyman's daughter. Her father and one of her brothers had been scholarly authors, and she was, in her daughter Matilda's words, for her day, highly educated. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. Betham-Edwards, Matilda. Reminiscences. G. Redway, 1898, p. vi, 354 pp. 111 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Around 1801-2, Charles
and Mary Lamb
were said to have succeeded in talking [George Dyer
] into love with EOB
, but to have been unsuccessful in talking her into love with him. This... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905. 69, 70 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | Sarah was a close friend of Mary Lamb
(who tried without success to get her to see her divorce as a serious matter: Sarah was focussed, at least publicly, on the adventure of travelling to... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill
, Henry Taylor
, and Leigh Hunt
. JWC
became especially fond of Hunt and Mill. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 100-1 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Holcroft | She and her younger siblings were known to Charles
and Mary Lamb
, to their friend Thomas Manning
, and to Mary Matilda Betham
and her family. Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Marrs, Edwin J.Editor , Cornell University Press, 1975. 3:3, 116-18 and n4, 166-7, 207 |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | While in London, TC
socialized with John Stuart Mill
, Mary
and Charles Lamb
, Henry Taylor
, Sarah Austin
and Leigh Hunt
. |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | Henry Crabb Robinson
, visiting LA
with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Timeline
By June 1796
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
compiled a booklet titled Sonnets from Various Authors: four each by himself, Southey
, Charles Lamb
, and Charles Lloyd
, two by Charlotte Smith
, and one each by seven more writers including Anna Seward
.
13 December 1800
William Godwin
's five-act versetragedyAntonio was performed for the first and last time at Drury Lane
. It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.
10 December 1806
Charles Lamb
's farceMr H— opened at Drury Lane
. Its dashing coxcomb protagonist cuts a swathe through the ladies at Bath until it comes out that his name is Hogsflesh, when they drop him hurriedly.
1823
John Mitford
published A Description of the Crimes and Horrors in the Interior of Warburton
's Private Mad-House at Hoxton, Commonly Called Whitmore House: in one of these the writer Mary Lamb
had been confined.
By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
By 26 October 1972
Helen Gardner
edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950, designed to update and replace Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
's Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900.