Charles Lamb

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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834

Connections

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Literary responses Sarah Williams
Plumptre likens SW to the essayist Elia, that is, to Charles Lamb .
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii.
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Among those who admired her work were the Reverend F. D. Maurice and the Scottish author Henrietta Keddie (who wrote...
Literary responses Dorothy Whipple
DW 's mother and siblings cried over the text of her childhood autobiography, remembering old days.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
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J. C. Squire praised the book in the Daily Telegraph and Evelyn Waugh in The Spectator wrote that...
Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Webster
AW 's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume , was a translator of Dante , and a friend of Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and William Godwin .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Joseph Hume
Publishing Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET contributed regularly to periodicals including the Cornhill Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, the Fortnightly Review, New Quarterly Magazine, Saint Pauls, Temple Bar, and the British Quarterly Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
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Friends, Associates Agnes Strickland
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
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Literary responses Evelyn Sharp
Beverly Lyon Clark , who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated...
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...
Publishing Henry Handel Richardson
She apparently began to write for a readership after giving up the aim of a musical career, by producing contributions for an unnamed friend's manuscript magazine. Her first attempt was Christmas in Australia, an...
Education Jean Rhys
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...
Leisure and Society Annabella Plumptre
Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Coventry Patmore
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
Education Carola Oman
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
Literary responses Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village was praised by Christopher North (John Wilson) , Felicia Hemans , Elizabeth Barrett (who called Mitford here a sort of prose Crabbe in the sun
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...
Residence Edna Lyall
EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

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

Edward Moxon 's publishing firm in London published as its first book Charles Lamb 's Album Verses.

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.