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Charles Lamb 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).
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culture · English essayist, poet, and antiquarian (1775–1834) · writer · poet · playwright · literary critic · children's writer · short story writer · also Charles Lamb, Elia, Lamb
Born 10 February 1775 · Died 27 December 1834 · Q372984
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I remember L. at school; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages, which I and other of his schoolfellows had not. His friends lived in town, and were near at hand; and he had the privilege of going to see them, almost as often as he wished, through some invidious distinction, which was denied to us.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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“I remember L. at school; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages, which I and other of his schoolfellows had not. His friends lived in town, and were near at hand; and he had the privilege of going to see them, almost as often as he wished, through some invidious distinction, which was denied to us.”
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A club, The Lambs, was formed in London to carry on their salon tradition
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Died 1834-12-27.
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On 27 December 1834, Lamb died of a streptococcal infection, erysipelas, contracted from a minor graze on his face sustained after slipping in the street; he was 59.
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
Shortly before Lamb's death
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A further collection called The Last Essays of Elia was published in 1833, shortly before Lamb's death.
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His collected essays, under the title Essays of Elia, were published in 1823 ("Elia" being the pen name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine).
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("Elia" being the pen name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine)
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With the title "On Garrick, and Acting; and the Plays of Shakspeare, considered with reference to their fitness for Stage Representation"—was prompted in response to his viewing of the David Garrick memorial on the west
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Lamb compiled a collection of extracts from the old dramatists, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare
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Mary's illness returned and Charles had to take her back again to the asylum
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Set up a shared home at Mitre Court Buildings in the Temple, where they would live until 1809
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Born 1775-02-10.
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