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Lamb, Charles (1775–1834) and Mary (1764–1847):

Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x

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essayist, critic, and poet, and his sister, with whom he collaborated on Tales from Shakespeare and also Mrs Leicester’s School , a favorite book of Margaret Wooler’s. Charlotte wrote about the “touching” history of their devotion to each other to Miss Wooler and W. S. Williams in 1848. The story of Mary’s periodic fits of murderous madness (in one of which she killed her mother by stabbing her through the heart) seems to have been new to her then, so it could not have contributed to her very different maniac in Jane Eyre . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Brontë Encyclopedia

Author: Robert Barnard and Louise Barnard
eISBN: 9781405151191
Print publication date: 2007

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A Brontë Encyclopedia

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- Lady’s Magazine:
- La Malle (no first name given):
- Lamartine, Alphonse De (1790–1869):
- Lamb, Charles (1775–1834) and Mary (1764–1847):
- Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802–73):
- Langweilig, Mr (no first name given):
- Lannoy, Hortense:
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