Though ML
was herself childless, she and Charles virtually adopted Emma Isola
(later Emma Moxon, wife of the publisher Edward Moxon
) after the death of her father in 1823, when Mary was nearly sixty...
Publishing
Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb
's poem To Emma
, Learning Latin, and Desponding appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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Prance, Claude Annett. Companion to Charles Lamb: A Guide to People and Places, 1760-1847. Mansell, 1983.
