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Mary Anne Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847) was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare (1807). Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796, aged 31, she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown.
Mary Lamb. British Poet and anthologist Mary Lamb worked as a seamstress for 10 years to support her ailing family. She suffered from bipolar disorder and, during an episode in 1796, killed her mother with a kitchen knife.
May 16, 2024 · Mary Ann Lamb (born December 3, 1764, London, England—died May 20, 1847, London) was an English writer, known for Tales from Shakespear, written with her brother Charles. Born into a poor family, Mary Lamb received little formal education.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies.
- Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare, Janusz Grabiański
- 1807
Sep 30, 2013 · Mary Lamb has been the subject of rediscovery alongside other women writers, while Charles Lamb has been recontextualized as a periodical writer, politicized and metropolitan, engaging both with the local urban scene and its wider global repercussions.
Mary Lamb outlived her brother by a number of years, her last decades darkened by increasingly lengthy periods of insanity; she died in St. John's Wood on 20 May 1847, and was buried in Charles's grave in Edmonton churchyard.
Mary Lamb Poetry. Mary Lamb was an English writer who is best known for working alongside her brother Charles on Tales from Shakespeare. She is well regarded for her literary works, but it’s perhaps better known for her mental decline and the murder of her mother during a mental breakdown.
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