Charles 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...

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).

An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.

Charles Lamb died in his lodgings at Edmonton north of London, apparently of erysipelas, a skin infection caused by a graze on his face from a fall in the street three days before Christmas.

Charles Lamb , poet and essayist, much younger brother of the writer Mary Lamb , was born in Crown Office Row, the Inner Temple, London.

Mary Jane Godwin (whom Charles and Mary Lamb disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear : Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though...

At the ages of twenty-five and fourteen, Mary Lamb and her brother Charles saw the sea for the first time when they sailed from London to Margate in Kent for the first designated holiday of...

Mary Lamb and her brother Charles published a second collaborative work for children, Mrs Leicester's School; or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves, bearing the date of 1809.

Seventeen-year-old Charles Lamb (brother of Mary ), on a visit to his grandmother Mary Field at Blakesware Manor (who was now mortally ill with breast cancer), fell in love with a girl living nearby who...

Mary Lamb and her brother Charles collaboratively published Poetry for Children: Entirely Original; of this, as of their other books, Charles said he had written one-third only, and that the issue of ascription was...

Financial disaster struck Mary and Charles Lamb and their family when their father's employer, Samuel Salt of the Inner Temple, the family benefactor, died.

Charles Lamb 's Works were published. A number of Mary Lamb 's poems appeared there, without her name.

Mary and Charles Lamb moved with their parents and their aunt from their beloved Inner Temple to a shared house nearby at 7 Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn.

ML is still known primarily as the sister of the essayist Charles Lamb , and as the central character in a painful and sensational story. She was, however, the lead author in her three collaborations...

Elizabeth Gaskell was also a visitor, friend, and neighbour. Returning one of her visits, GJ was reportedly found sitting on the floor of Gaskell's drawing-room, reading aloud from Charles Lamb 's The Essays of Elia.