Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb.
Portrait by Henry Hoppner Meyer
Portrait of Charles Lamb by William Hazlitt, 1804
Memorial to Charles Lamb at Watch House in Giltspur Street, London
Fanny Kelly "Entertains" from "The Works of Charles Lamb". The original caption said "Mr Lamb having taken the liberty of addressing a slight compliment to Miss Kelly in his first volume, respectfully requests her acceptance of the collection. 7 June 1818."
Mary Lamb
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Mary Anne Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796, aged 31
Charles Lamb
…essayist, poet and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William…
Mary Lamb Portrait
Portrait of Mary with her brother Charles by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834
The Lambs' home in Edmonton
1922 frontispiece illustration for Tales from Shakespeare