"bottom a conviction of the truth, and a certainty of the usefulness of religion."" In the later letters it is often possible to see Lamb forming and developing the ideas that he later presented in fully matured form in the ""Essays of Elia"" and other magazine pieces, and in this way they proved to be essential to his career as a published writer. The humour and (as he often said) ""nonsense"" of his letters is sometimes seen as a disguise for mental instability and deep anguish. The essayist Augustine Birrell wrote that ""He took refuge in trivialities seriously, and played"
"university English departments"". Notwithstanding, there has always been a small but enduring following for Lamb's works, as the long-running and still-active ""Charles Lamb Bulletin"" demonstrates. Because of his notoriously quirky, even bizarre, style, he has been more of a ""cult favourite"" than an author with mass popular or scholarly appeal. Lamb was honoured by The Latymer School, a grammar school in Edmonton, a suburb of London where he lived for a time; it has six houses, one of which, ""Lamb"", is named after Charles. Charles Lamb Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet,"
"delightful of English essayists."" Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is ""Cousin Bridget."" Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. American editions of both the ""Essays"" and the ""Last Essays"" were published in Philadelphia in 1828. At the time, American publishers were unconstrained by copyright law, and often reprinted materials from English books and periodicals; so"
"pseudonym: Charlotte Lamb, but later she used several other pseudonyms, among them Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf and Laura Hardy. Her first historical and romantic novels were published by Robert Hale and serialised in Woman's Weekly Digest. By the late 1970s, she was an established and successful author, publishing as many as twelve novels a year with Mills and Boon. That annual number rose over the next few years; by the late 1990s, she had published over 160 novels, most of them romances, others historical novels and romantic thrillers, achieving over 200 million sales worldwide. During the course of her career,"
"Review"". He was, however, most closely linked with ""The London Magazine"", to which he contributed articles and art criticism from 1820 to 1823, under the ""noms-de-plume"" of Janus Weathercock, Egomet Bonmot and Cornelius van Vinkbooms. Wainewright's success in publication would have been assisted by his famous grandfather. He was a friend of Charles Lamb, who thought well of his writing and, in a letter to Bernard Barton, styles him ""the kind, light-hearted Wainewright."" Wainewright also practised as an artist and was trained by John Linnell and Thomas Phillips. He produced a portrait of Lord Byron and made illustrations for the"
"poets' works; and it was abandoned by many of its staff, including Lamb and Hazlitt. The ""London Magazine"" again ceased publication in 1829. The title was revived in November 1875 for ""a monthly of light literature, conducted by Will Williams"", where it appears to have gone under the simpler moniker, ""The London"", and where it has been described as ""a society paper"", and as being ""a journal of a type more usual in Paris than London, written for the sake of its contributors rather than of the public."" A significant development in this period was the arrival of William Ernest"
"of Charles Lamb"". Edward Litt Laman Blanchard Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, often referred to as E. L. Blanchard (11 December 1820 – 4 September 1889), was an English writer who is best known for his contributions to the Drury Lane pantomime. He began writing plays and other literature to support himself as a teenager after his father died. He soon became a prolific creator of dramas and eventually gained critical acclaim for his works. He also served as a newspaper drama critic and mentored other writers. Edward Blanchard was born at 28 Great Queen Street, London, the second son of"
"obscurity is probably not correct. He was, however, perpetually impoverished; he spent time in debtors' prison, and was constantly forced to borrow money from friends and strangers. When he died, his widow and daughters applied to the Literary Fund for relief. They received only token amounts. Ireland is one of the main characters in Peter Ackroyd's 2004 novel ""The Lambs of London"", though the contacts with Charles and Mary Lamb have no basis in the historical record, and Ackroyd took many liberties with the story. William Henry Ireland William Henry Ireland (1775–1835) was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents"
"David Lamb (journalist) David Sherman Lamb (March 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016) was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as a ""Los Angeles Times"" correspondent. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years and then freelanced. David Lamb was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Maine's School of Journalism in 1962, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He began his career with The ""Okinawa Morning Star"", then moved on to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Oakland Tribune. He then joined United Press International in San Francisco"
"on one side to look over an old book-stall, or stroll down some deserted pathway in search of a pensive description over a tottering doorway, or some quaint device in architecture, illustrative of embryo art and ancient manners. Mr. Lamb has the very soul of an antiquarian ..."" Although he did not write his first Elia essay until 1820, Lamb's gradual perfection of the essay form for which he eventually became famous began as early as 1811 in a series of open letters to Leigh Hunt's ""Reflector"". The most famous of these early essays is ""The Londoner"", in which Lamb"
"figures of the day. In 1869, a club, The Lambs, was formed in London to carry on their salon tradition. The actor Henry James Montague founded the club's New York counterpart in 1874. Charles Lamb, having been to school with Samuel Coleridge, counted Coleridge as perhaps his closest, and certainly his oldest, friend. On his deathbed, Coleridge had a mourning ring sent to Lamb and his sister. Fortuitously, Lamb's first publication was in 1796, when four sonnets by ""Mr Charles Lamb of the India House"" appeared in Coleridge's ""Poems on Various Subjects"". In 1797 he contributed additional blank verse to"
"The Times Literary Supplement The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. The ""TLS"" first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ""The Times"", but became a separate publication in 1914. Many distinguished writers have been contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, but reviews were normally anonymous until 1974. From 1974, signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John Gross. This aroused great controversy at the time. ""Anonymity had once been appropriate when it"
"John Lehmann Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals ""New Writing"" and ""The London Magazine"", and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann, he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. He considered his time at both as ""lost years"". After a period as a journalist in Vienna, he returned to England to found the popular"
"pseudonym ""Luke Sharp."" This nom de plume was derived from the time he attended school in Toronto. At that time he would pass on his daily commute a shop sign marked, ""Luke Sharpe, Undertaker"", a combination of words Barr considered amusing in their incongruity. Barr was promoted by the ""Detroit Free Press"", eventually becoming its news editor. In 1881 Barr decided to ""vamoose the ranch"", as he said, and relocated to London to establish the weekly English edition of the ""Detroit Free Press"". In 1892 he founded the magazine ""The Idler"", choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as"
"honours came, but he declined a baronetcy (in lieu of royal fees) and moved out of royal circles. His social gifts, a knowledge of horseflesh and marriage to a wife with aristocratic connections brought him popularity. Wardrop was associated with Thomas Wakley in the founding of ""The Lancet"" in 1823, for which he first wrote savage articles and, later, witty and scurrilous lampoons in his column 'Intercepted Letters'. The letters, under the pseudonym 'Brutus', were thinly disguised as by leading London surgeons, 'accidentally' revealing their nepotism, venality and incompetence. There was enough truth in them to make the parodies sting."
"Charlotte Lamb Sheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates ( in Dagenham, Essex, England – in Isle of Man) was best known under the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb as a prolific romantic novelist. She signed her novels with her married or maiden names – Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates – and under the pseudonyms Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf and Laura Hardy. She was married to Richard Holland. They had five children, including a set of twins: - Michael Holland, Sarah Holland, Jane Holland, Charlotte Holland and David Holland. Born Sheila Ann Mary Coates on 22 December 1937 at Dagenham, Essex, England. As"
"the literary world (other pseudonyms—he used at least three—were Lucian Paul and Frank Grave). He edited the ""Edinburgh Evening Courant"" from 1864 to 1867, taking over when James Hannay moved to London, and being replaced by the new owner, Charles Wescomb, by James Scot Henderson. The long-lived Espinasse was in the end thought of as ""the Nestor of Victorian journalism"". He was remembered as a biographer of French philosophers, and substantial contributor to the ""Dictionary of National Biography"" (he is one of those credited with its conception). He became a Poor Brother of the London Charterhouse, supplying a pension. Francis"
"interloper by most critics. He had no advantages of birth, wealth or education; he lost his parents in childhood, watched one brother die of tuberculosis and the other emigrate to America. Poverty kept him from marrying the woman he loved. And he achieved lasting fame only after his early death in 1821. Yet grief and hardship never destroyed his passionate commitment to poetry. Lamb house is named after local literary essayist, Charles Lamb. Its house colour is purple. The house is often referred to as the purple flock. Charles Lamb was an essayist with Welsh heritage. Due to family commitments,"
"the Vietnam War to later live in peacetime Hanoi, Vietnam. He married his partner, Sandy Northrop, in Nairobi in 1977. He was the author of six books: David Lamb (journalist) David Sherman Lamb (March 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016) was a freelance writer who traveled the world for twenty-five years as a ""Los Angeles Times"" correspondent. He left the paper in 2004 after 34 years and then freelanced. David Lamb was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Maine's School of Journalism in 1962, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He began his"
"1834. He was 59. From 1833 till their deaths, Charles and Mary lived at Bay Cottage, Church Street, Edmonton, north of London (now part of the London Borough of Enfield). Lamb is buried in All Saints' Churchyard, Edmonton. His sister, who was ten years his senior, survived him for more than a dozen years. She is buried beside him. Lamb's first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in Coleridge's ""Poems on Various Subjects"", published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle. The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poems of Burns and the sonnets of William Bowles, a largely forgotten poet"
"French, Latin, Persian, and Arabic, and, by his own account, a smattering of Manchu-Tartar. Although Harold Lamb wrote short stories for a variety of magazines between 1917 and the early 1960s, and wrote several novels, his best known and most reprinted fiction is that which he wrote for ""Adventure"" between 1917 and 1936. The editor of ""Adventure"", Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, praised Lamb's writing ability, describing him as ""always the scholar first, the good fictionist second"". The majority of Harold Lamb's work for ""Adventure"" was historical fiction, and can be thematically divided into three broad categories of tales: Lamb's prose was"
"California. There are very few existing letters addressed to Lamb apart from those sent by his friend Thomas Manning, since Lamb usually destroyed his old correspondence. Lamb wrote his letters in a ""bold free hand and a fearless flourish"" (his own words), which present no great difficulties to editors, though his spelling and punctuation were sometimes erratic. Lamb's main correspondents were the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Hood, Bernard Barton, Mary Matilda Betham and Bryan Procter; the philosopher and novelist William Godwin; the music critic William Ayrton; the publishers Edward Moxon, William Hone, Charles Ollier, Charles"
"edited a collection of the letters of Dickens. A convert to Roman Catholicism, in 1981 Lady Pansy took up residence in a flat in Rome, where she had close friends. She became a guide at St Peter's and was devoted to Pope John Paul II. She died in London in February 1999, at the age of ninety-four. They had two daughters and a son, including the landscape gardener Henrietta Phipps, and the journalist Valentine Lamb. Lady Pansy Lamb Lady Margaret Pansy Felicia Lamb, known as Lady Pansy Lamb (18 May 1904 – 19 February 1999) was an English writer under"
"term of opprobrium, held reactionary views on the Peterloo Massacre and the Sepoy rebellion, on Catholic Emancipation and the enfranchisement of the common people, and yet was also a staunch abolitionist on the issue of slavery. In 1821 he went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences, which that year appeared in the ""London Magazine"". This new sensation eclipsed Lamb's ""Essays of Elia"", which were then appearing in the same periodical. The ""Confessions of an English Opium-Eater"" were soon published in book form."
"Mary Lamb Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847) was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection ""Tales from Shakespeare"". Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She was confined to mental facilities off and on for most of her life. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others. Mary Lamb was born on 3 December 1764, the third of seven children"
"towns of New London, Willimantic, in Connecticut as well as Westerly, Rhode Island. As a child, Lamb loved to draw and create his own comic books—activities which, he says, gave him ""a leg up"" on the imagery and colloquial dialogue that characterize his stories. He credits his ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls. After graduating from high school, Lamb studied at the University of Connecticut during the turbulent early 1970s era of anti-war and civil rights protests and student strikes. He holds"
"Lynton Lamb Lynton Lamb RDI, FSRA, FSIA (15 April 1907 - 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, Author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs. He was born the son of The Reverend Frederick Lamb in Nizambabad, India, grew up in London and was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset. He then worked in an Estate Agents office and attended night school at Camberwell School of Art before studying art full-time at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. From 1930 he designed book jackets and bindings for the"
"as revealed in his letters that he once pressed one of them to his forehead and exclaimed ""Saint Charles!"" It was the opinion of Thomas Noon Talfourd, who knew Lamb well, that there was scarcely one of his letters ""which has not some tinge of that quaint sweetness, some hint of that peculiar union of kindness and whim, which distinguishes him from all other poets and humorists."" Lamb's reputation as a writer may have fallen since the 19th and early 20th centuries, at any rate among academic critics, but he has never been short of readers who agree with the"
"ever grateful for the efforts of the ""Evening Standard"" and its readers for raising money through a tree appeal, led by Angus McGill.” Angus McGill Angus McGill MBE (26 November 1927 – 16 October 2015) was an English journalist who made his name writing a humorous weekly column in the ""London Evening Standard"", which ran for 30 years documenting all that was eccentric about London life. In 1968, with the illustrator Dominic Poelsma, he also created a daily cartoon strip called Clive, later renamed Augusta. McGill won the British Press Award as Descriptive Writer of the Year 1968 and was"
"(2007). Mary Lamb Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847) was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection ""Tales from Shakespeare"". Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She was confined to mental facilities off and on for most of her life. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others. Mary Lamb was born on 3 December 1764, the third of seven"
"seven months and incidentally provides much curious information. These publications were reprinted in 1726 in two volumes as """". He collected his poems in 1720, and wrote another university satire, ""Oculus Britanniæ"", in 1724. On leaving Oxford for London he became a prominent pamphleteer on the opposition (whig) side. On the 5 December 1726 he issued the first number of ""The Craftsman"", a weekly periodical, which he conducted under the pseudonym of Caleb D'Anvers. The paper was aimed mainly towards the overthrow of Sir Robert Walpole's government; there is some debate about its effects, with most historians agreeing it did"
"what he saw. In the autumn, he went to Rome for several weeks and also visited Florence and Milan. He returned to London before the end of the year. Lamb set up a studio in Montrose in 1924. He earned a livelihood initially by print making, almost all etchings, and by drawing. Simultaneously he started to model whenever he had time or a commission. He gradually fell under the influence of Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance literary movement which was centred in Montrose. This confirmed his resolve to make his work distinctly Scottish by modelling the ordinary men and"
"by any daily newspaper in Britain (until then daily newspapers were un-illustrated). He moved to Broughty Ferry near Dundee. In 1881, as a freelance artist, he began contributing cartoons and illustrations to the comic weekly ""The Quiz"", an imitation of the magazine ""Punch"". For his illustrations in The Quiz he used the pseudonym ""bob"", but in November 1887 he adopted a second pseudonym, that of ""Cynicus"", and began to move away """"from the safe and trivial to the dangerous and powerful realm of politics"""". A series of cartoons titled ""The Satires of Cynicus"" appeared in The Quiz in 1888. In"