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.
Image of the head of Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847, from a portrait of her with her brother Charles, by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834. She looks straight at the viewer; her face and some visible black hair are encircled by a white ruffled cap tied with a broad, dark ribbon, and she wears a black cloak.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Again she used the pen-name of Henrietta Leslie. She dedicated the book For Peter and it appeared with Galsworthy's foreword, which welcomes its unusual presentation of the war as it was or seemed to...
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, 1996.
100
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
176-9
. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC wrote a preface for this book, which includes accounts of Keats , Charles and Mary Lamb , Douglas Jerrold , and Dickens .
Travel Mary Cowden Clarke
During her engagement the future MCC travelled to Somerset and other western counties to meet her fiancé's relations.
Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896.
49
The couple spent their honeymoon at Enfield, Charles Cowden Clarke's birthplace and the scene of...
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Fenwick
Mary Lamb 's mention, in a context of her own money troubles, of a recent, memorable visit from EF probably relates to this event. Nearly two years later, on 12 November 1807, Mary Hays sent...

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