The following essay discusses Mary Lamb and her brother, Charles Lamb . Although Charles Lamb was best known to his contemporaries for his essays published under the pseudonym "Elia," his place in the annals of children's literature rests on Tales from...

Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's tears on hearing a sad song, Charles Lamb composed three songs for her and sent them to his muse the next day with the injunction that she not "be offended." (1) Though Lamb did not date the songs,...

The author attempts to reconcile the contradictory textual and cultural bodies, one mad and one docile, of Mary Lamb. Issues discussed include social and cultural formations of femininity and madness, the purification of women sinners, the labeling of the female sexual nature as diseased,...

In the following essay, Ruwe argues that Mary and Charles Lamb use the depiction of siblings in Poetry for Children to expose patriarchal influence in poetry, while Charlotte Smith's representation of siblings argues for a removal of this patriarchal authority.

In the following essay, Craciun analyzes the violent and aggressive nature of Lamb's works and of her matricide amid a discussion of the interpretation of violence in female literature.

In the following essay, Aaron examines the political and socio-psychological elements apparent in “On Needle-Work,” arguing that despite the restraint evident in the work, it is a valuable document of social criticism.