Charles Lamb

Burton writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles 's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth 's contribution to...

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.

ML 's letters were edited together with those of her brother Charles , by Edwin J. Marrs, Jr , in 1975-8. Despite extensive searching, however, Mary's surviving letters are hugely outnumbered by those from Charles...

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 early 1805 it seems, after Charles Lamb had already produced a children's book for the Godwins' new Juvenile Library , Mary Jane Godwin asked ML (who was not known as an author, though she...

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

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...

Charles and Mary Lamb left their lodgings in Chancery Lane for others at 16 Mitre Court Buildings, in the Inner Temple where they had grown up. They lived there for eight years.

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...

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.

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.

Charles and Mary Lamb embarked on their first trip abroad, heading for Paris.

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...

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).