Mary Anne 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 (1807). Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796, aged 31, she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She was confined to mental facilities for most of her remaining life. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834, Londres), escritor del romanticismo británico, en sus ensayos desarrolla un estilo casi conversacional y divagatorio que conjuga erudición, comicidad, poesía, especulación, gusto por el detalle y una sutil gracia para condensar citas que sólo posee quien...
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