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Charles Lamb Biography ▪ Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and children's book writer most closely associated with the Romantic era. ▪ He was born on February 10, 1775, in London to John Lamb and Elizabeth Field as their youngest child among three living children. ▪ His father worked as a clerk for a lawyer. ▪ His brother John and sister Mary were many years older to him. ▪ He was quite close to his paternal aunt Hetty and maternal grandmother Mrs. Field. ▪ He suffered from stutter problem all his life, which disqualified him from a clerical career. ▪ In a fit of madness, Mary stabbed and killed her mother. It is believed that there was a hereditary strain of mental illness in the family. ▪ She was declared temporarily insane and placed under the guardianship of her brother Charles. ▪ Charles Lamb was one of the significant members of the Lake Poets among whom William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were his close friends. ▪ During his youth, Lamb fell in love with a woman named Ann Simmons, who became his great unrequited love after she married a silversmith. She appears in Lamb's sonnets and essays under the moniker "Alice M." ▪ His love of Shakespeare lead to him collaborate with his sister Mary on a book of adaptations of Shakespeare's plays called Tales from Shakespeare, which would become the most successful of his writings. Lamb enjoyed a profoundly close relationship with her. ▪ Charles became heavil ...
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