Mary Lamb

Letters to Miss Betham and her little Sister.--To Wordsworth.--Manning's Return.--Coleridge goes to Highgate.--Letter to Miss Hutchinson on Mary's state.--Removal to Russell Str...

Lamb's Ill-health.--Retirement from the India House, and subsequent Illness.--Letter from Mary to Lady Stoddart.--Colebrook Cottage left.--Mary's constant Attacks.--Home given u...

Mary in the Asylum again.--Lamb's Letter with a Poem of hers.--Her slow Recovery.--Letters to Sarah Stoddart.--The _Tales from Shakespeare_ begun.--Hazlitt's Portrait of Lamb.--...

Death of Aunt Hetty.--Mary removed from the Asylum.--Charles Lloyd.--A Visit to Nether Stowey, and Introduction to Wordsworth and his Sister.--Anniversary of the Mother's Death....

On the 10th of February 1775 arrived a new member into the household group in Crown Office Row--Charles, the child of his father's old age, the "weakly but very pretty babe," wh...

"No intention of forfeiting my promise, but want of time has prevented me from continuing my _journal_. You seem pleased with the long stupid one I sent, and, therefore, I shall...

For some years matters had not gone smoothly between Sarah Hazlitt and her husband. He was hard to live with, and she seems to have given up the attempt to make the best of thin...

Visit to Coleridge at Greta Hall.--Wordsworth and his Sister in London.--Letters to Miss Stoddart.--Coleridge goes to Malta.--Letter to Dorothy Wordsworth on the Death of her Br...

No description of Mary Lamb's person in youth is to be found; but hers was a kind of face which time treats gently, adding with one hand while he takes away with the other; comp...

The story of Mary Lamb's life is mainly the story of a brother and sister's love; of how it sustained them under the shock of a terrible calamity and made beautiful and even hap...

Hazlitt and his Bride had, for the present, settled down in Sarah's cottage at Winterslow; so Mary continued to send them every now and then a pretty budget of gossip:--

letter is not so easy for me to conceive, that not being your way of taking things. But, however it may be, let some answer come either to him or else to me, showing cause why y...

The _Tales from Shakespeare_ were no sooner finished than Mary began, as her letters show, to cast about for some new scheme which should realise an equally felicitous and profi...

"[Mary] says you saw her writings about the other day, and she wishes you should know what they are. She is doing for Godwin's bookseller twenty of Shakespeare's plays, to be ma...

Towards the end of 1814 Crabb Robinson called on Mary Lamb and found her suffering from great fatigue after writing an article on needle-work for the _British Lady's Magazine_,...

The feeble flame of life in Lamb's father flickered on for two years and a half after his wife's death. He was laid to rest at last beside her and his sister Hetty in the church...

Lamb's Ill-health.--Retirement from the India House, and subsequent Illness.--Letter from Mary to Lady Stoddart.--Colebrook Cottage quitted.--Mary's constant Attacks.--A Home gi...

Letters to Miss Betham and her little Sister.--To Wordsworth. --Manning's Return.--Coleridge goes to Highgate.--Letter to Miss Hutchinson on Mary's state.--Removal to Russell St...

Death of Aunt Hetty.--Mary removed from the Asylum.--Charles Lloyd.--A Visit to Nether Stowey, and Introduction to Wordsworth and his Sister.--Anniversary of the Mother's Death....

Mary in the Asylum again.--Lamb's Letter with a Poem of hers.--Her slow Recovery.--Letters to Sarah Stoddart.--The _Tales from Shakespeare_ begun.--Hazlitt's Portrait of Lamb.--...

Visit to Coleridge at Greta Hall.--Wordsworth and his Sister in London.--Letters to Miss Stoddart.--Coleridge goes to Malta.--Letter to Dorothy Wordsworth on the Death of her Br...