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
William Hazlitt
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William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the E
Mary Lamb
…for the Tales included William Mulready and the poet William Blake. In 1808 the Lambs developed a closer friendship with an earlier acquaintance, William Hazlitt, who had recently married Mary's friend Sarah Stoddart, sister of the journalist John Stoddart. Mary began writing her collection of tales Mrs. Leicester's…
Self-portrait from about 1802
House in Wem, Shropshire, where the Reverend William Hazlitt and his family lived between 1787 and 1813
Portrait of Charles Lamb by William Hazlitt, 1804
The back of No. 19, York Street (1848). In 1651 John Milton moved into a "pretty garden-house" in Petty France. He lived there until the Restoration. Later it became No. 19 York Street, belonged to Jeremy Bentham, was occupied successively by James Mill and William Hazlitt, and was demolished in 1877.