93,733 profiles ranked live

Mary Lamb

✓ Source-basedstable

English writer, the sister and collaborator of writer Charles Lamb (1764-1847)

WritersLived 1764 to 1847 · aged 82
Compare
Fame50.0
MomentumNot measured
Languages19
Peak1900s
In century#1,115

Mary Anne Lamb 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.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

In their orbit 1

Writers born in the 1760s 6

About this person

Mary Anne Lamb 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.

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1764 to 1847 · aged 82
Written about in
19 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.