Charles Lamb

It appears that late in life she showed Charles Lamb a collection of her letters to her family. He praised them as a widow's cruise: that is, an inexhaustible supply of riches from a...

Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.

Charles , she observes (echoing a published confession of his own), has no ear. For him to voice criticism of Handel or of the gamut is ridiculous: he does not know what he is talking...

She introduces with the words Drink is a great problem an analysis of Charles Lamb 's Confessions of a Drunkard, an essay in which Lamb treats his own drinking frankly as an addiction;...

Mary Lamb wrote in a letter from the asylum (as transcribed by Charles ): I have no bad terrifying dreams—which suggests that she had been having this kind of dream in the recent past.

Mary Lamb underwent another sojourn in the lunatic asylum: her brother Charles wrote in mid-June about her being from home.

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...

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. While in London she...

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

Henry Crabb Robinson , visiting LA with Charles and Mary Lamb , reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb.

While in London, TC socialized with John Stuart Mill , Mary and Charles Lamb , Henry Taylor , Sarah Austin and Leigh Hunt .

They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell , Robert Southey , Charles Lamb , editor William Jerdan , and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland , Jane

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, Science...

Her biographer William McCarthy, speculating on causes for this reversal of former admiration, mentions Coleridge's painful feelings for his mother and his wife, his leaving the Dissenters for the Church of England, and the predominance...

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...