Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
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Sarah Burton
Standard Name: Burton, Sarah
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
died at 41 Alpha Road, St John's Wood, aged eighty-three. Sarah Burton
gives this address as number 41, while Jane Aaron
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives number 40. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | Crabb Robinson
, another minor player, called the distinguished guests [f]ive poets of very unequal worth and most disproportionate popularity, whom the public would rank in the reverse order to their actual achievement. Sarah Burton |
| Health | Mary Lamb | Mary herself, her brother Charles, and the general public all accepted that at the moment of the killing she had not known what she was doing. Charles was relieved from nameless fears when a week... |
| Literary responses | Mary Lamb | Burton
writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles
's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth
's contribution to... |
| Literary responses | Mary Lamb | Mary referred to her work as poor little baby-stories, in the context of her own inability (she said in a letter) to write about anything else except her current work. Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 2: 229 |
| Reception | Mary Lamb | Her reputation has remained so enmeshed in that of Charles that until recently ML
was often hidden in his shadow. Recent scholarly work, especially by Jane Aaron
and Sarah Burton
, has begun to remedy... |
| Travel | Mary Lamb | Visits to the countryside were also appreciated, however. Until the death of her great-aunt Ann in July 1779, Mary made many extended visits to her aunt's farm, Mackery End near Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire. She... |
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Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.