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
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
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconvention
Mary Lamb
…followed him until his death. Mary patiently watched over Charles when he was drunk, just as he had always watched over her. In 1806, William Godwin (Mary Wollstonecraft's widower) and his second wife Mary Jane Godwin (mother of Claire Clairmont), who had become close with the Lambs through their shared literary work…
c. 1797 portrait
Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
The insurrection of 10 August 1792