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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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. 10 |
Instructor | Mary Cowden Clarke | While her brother Alfred
had a year at school in France, she was taught Latin and poetical reading by Mary Lamb
, whose voice years later remain[ed] on my mind's ear. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 22 |
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 |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Fenwick | |
Residence | Eliza Fenwick | Presumably during the course of this move, the Fenwick family (including the dog) arrived to stay for a week at the home of Charles
and Mary Lamb
, being apparently homeless. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 265 Mary Lamb, who... |
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... |
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 | 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
,... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | This by no means exhausts the list of EN
's writings for children. The first number of The Enchanted Castle (which is less episodic, perhaps less brilliant, and more socially critical than the Phoenix or... |
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 |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. 100 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 176-9 |
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