Charles Lamb

In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare , Southey , Scott , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . She also read Henry Drummond 's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb 's Letters.

MCC later remembered her responsibility, when very young, of escorting her two next younger brothers to their school. Unlike them, she began her education at home. She writes fondly about the rich array of...

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

At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

His father, Peter George Patmore , was a writer and journalist. He edited The New Monthly Magazine from 1841 to 1853, and counted among his friends William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Richard Monckton Milnes

Seventeen-year-old Charles Lamb (brother of Mary ), on a visit to his grandmother Mary Field at Blakesware Manor (who was now mortally ill with breast cancer), fell in love with a girl living nearby who...

The date of EF 's marriage to John Fenwick is not known, though it seems that she was young at the time, still in her teens. He was nine years older, like her the child...

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , spent six weeks confined to a lunatic asylum at Hoxton on account of mental illness.

John Lamb, father of Mary and Charles died after years of encroaching senility; this enabled the brother and sister to live together once again.

In May 1794 Thomas Holcroft was indicted for high treason and spent time in prison; but he was acquitted at his trial. During the nine years between the death of Fanny's mother and his next...

FH 's stepmother married an actor named James Kenney after Thomas Holcroft's death and had several more children. (Charles Lamb indulged in fantasy about her going on to marry several times more.) Information...

AW 's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume , was a translator of Dante , and a friend of Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and William Godwin .

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , began writing his best-known works: essays contributed under the pen-name of Elia to the London Magazine.

Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , retired from the office of the East India Company on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised).

Charles Lamb died in his lodgings at Edmonton north of London, apparently of erysipelas, a skin infection caused by a graze on his face from a fall in the street three days before Christmas.