Charles Lamb

Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley , who had already...

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

She and her younger siblings were known to Charles and Mary Lamb , to their friend Thomas Manning , and to Mary Matilda Betham and her family.

In addition to meeting Dickens as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC and her husband met William Hazlitt through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt , and...

While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...

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...

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.

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;...

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...

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

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 and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...

In 1833 Charles Lamb wrote that MMBhad the most feminine soul of all our poet- and prose-esses.

Charles Lamb pronounced MMB 's poem (before publication) to be very delicately pretty as to sentiment, while Charlotte Bedingfield felt it would considerably raise MMB 's literary fame.Allan Cunningham called it full...

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...