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.
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Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
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 | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
met Charles Lamb
and his sister Mary
. Charles had already, in the privacy of a letter, railed at the cursed Barbauld Crew whose didactic tales had driven out old, wild tales, McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 446 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
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. 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 | 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. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3:3, 116-18 and n4, 166-7, 207 |
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. 100-1 |
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
,... |
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