Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Charles Lamb
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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Fanny Holcroft | In 1806 Charles Lamb
reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty. |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Matilda Betham | She applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Lamb | Financial disaster struck Mary
and Charles Lamb
and their family when their father's employer, Samuel Salt
of the Inner Temple, the family benefactor, died. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 74 |
Violence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Travel | Mary Lamb | Charles
and Mary Lamb
set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of Coleridge
at Keswick and the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson
at Ambleside. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. B196-7 |
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. 49 |
Travel | Mary Lamb | Charles
and Mary Lamb
embarked on their first trip abroad, heading for Paris. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 318-19 |
Travel | Sara Coleridge | In her years growing up, SC
frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth
family at Rydal Mount. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 24 |
Travel | Mary Lamb | At the ages of twenty-five and fourteen, Mary Lamb
and her brother Charles
saw the sea for the first time when they sailed from London to Margate in Kent for the first designated holiday of... |
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
. |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles
did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error... |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | In June-July 1806 ML
reported to Sarah Stoddart
that she was looking for a project to succeed the (still unfinished) Tales. She wanted her friend to set your brains to work and invent a... |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | ML
's last identified writing seems to be her five couplets of sardonic comment on her brother
's Free Thoughts on Several Eminent Composers, written about 1830. Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell. 188 Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, Methuen. 2: 344-5 |
Textual Production | Mary Cowden Clarke | Following her marriage on 5 July 1828, MCC
was determined to earn some contribution to our family income. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 47 |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
and her brother Charles
published a second collaborative work for children, Mrs Leicester's School; or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves, bearing the date of 1809. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3rd ser. 15 (1808): 444 |
Timeline
29 December 1794: The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition...
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29 December 1794
The Morning Chronicle (a paper with Opposition views) printed a sonnet, Mrs Siddons, which was attributed to Coleridge
, but was actually written by Charles Lamb
.
By June 1796: Samuel Taylor Coleridge compiled a booklet...
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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 verse tragedy Antonio...
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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 farce Mr H— opened at Drury...
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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.
By February 1811: The craze for sentiment was extended (not...
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By February 1811
The craze for sentiment was extended (not without irony) to writing for children, in Felissa, or the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment written by Charles Lamb
.
28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...
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28 December 1817
The painter Benjamin Haydon
held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats
might meet the eminent William Wordsworth
.
January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...
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January 1823
Charles Lamb
published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
August 1830: Edward Moxon's publishing firm in London...
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August 1830
24 April 1833: The Wife by James Sheridan Knowles opened...
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24 April 1833
The Wife by James Sheridan Knowles
opened on stage in London; it was published this year with a Prologue and Epilogue by Charles Lamb
.
Texts
Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Mrs Leicester’s School. M. J. Godwin, 1808.
Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Poetry for Children. M. J. Godwin, 1809.
Lamb, Mary, and Charles Lamb. Tales from Shakespear. M. J. Godwin, 1807.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press, 1975.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, Methuen, 1905.