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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mary Lamb Information
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 Mary Anne Lamb (3 December 1764–20 May 1847), was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. In 1796, Mary, who had suffered a breakdown from the strain of caring for her family, killed her mother with a kitchen knife, and...
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 Wordsworth Circle Three unpublished songs by Charles Lamb for Mary Shelley.
06/22/2002: 1,173 words, approx. 4 pages 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... summary from source:
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 The Mad Body as the Text of Culture in the Writings of Mary Lamb.
09/22/1999: 7,245 words, approx. 24 pages 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,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Donelle R. Ruwe
11,864 words, approx. 40 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Adriana Craciun
11,149 words, approx. 37 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Jane Aaron
9,541 words, approx. 32 pages
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.
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