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Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb - Volume I (Esprios Classics)
2021·418 pages
A collection of personal letters by Charles and Mary Lamb, revealing their lives and thoughts.
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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 - 27 December 1834) 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 (1764-1847). Charles and Mary both suffered periods of mental illness, and Charles spent six weeks in a psychiatric hospital during 1795. He was, however, already making his name as a poet. Despite Lamb's bouts of melancholia, both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich...
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Passing references to the literary and theatrical social scene of Regency London
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Recurring mentions of melancholia and Charles's six-week psychiatric hospitalization
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Background references to family mental-health struggles and institutionalization
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