Charles Lamb

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Standard Name: Lamb, Charles,, 1775 - 1834

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Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
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,
qtd. in
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
446
Science...
Friends, Associates Thomas Carlyle
While in London, TC socialized with John Stuart Mill , Mary and Charles Lamb , Henry Taylor , Sarah Austin and Leigh Hunt .
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 Fanny Holcroft
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.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.
3:3, 116-18 and n4, 166-7, 207
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
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...
Health Mary Matilda Betham
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...
Health Mary Lamb
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.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
162
qtd. in
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
107
Health Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb underwent another sojourn in the lunatic asylum: her brother Charles wrote in mid-June about her being from home.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books, 1997.
160
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Lamb
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Nina Hamnett
She introduces with the words Drink is a great problem an analysis of Charles Lamb 's Confessions of a Drunkard,
Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate, 1955.
84
an essay in which Lamb treats his own drinking frankly as an addiction;...
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, 1990.
494
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...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...
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
qtd. in
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...
Literary responses Mary Matilda Betham
In 1833 Charles Lamb wrote that MMBhad the most feminine soul of all our poet- and prose-esses.
qtd. in
Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons, 1905.
233

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