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  • 2. Charles Lamb Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, fiction writer and critic from the Romantic period

  • 3. Childhood & Early Life • 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. • Mary taught him to read and thereafter he came under the guidance of Mrs. Reynolds with whom he maintained lifelong contact. • He joined ‘Christ’s Hospital’ at seven. It was in this free boarding school where he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and developed a friendship that remained for life. He attended the school till 1789.

  • 4. Career • He suffered from stutter problem all his life, which disqualified him from a clerical career. • After a short stint in the offi

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    2 His Life författare av essäer Poet Wrote under the pseudonym “Elia”
    Friends with literary greats such as Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron

    3 Charles suffered from several weeks of anxiety as a young man; he was hospitalized and fully recoveredBecause of a severe stutter, Charles was not encouraged to study for the Church so he became a clerkHe spent the majority of his work life with the East India Trading Company, retiring with a good pension 25 years later

    4 Lam’s sister, Mary, attacked and killed their mother
    Lamb gave up his hopes of marriage to care for his sister who was convicted of “lunacy” and required a constant companionLamb cared for Mary until his death; she died 13 years later and is buried beside her brother

    5 His WorkLamb began writing poetry and four of his sonnets were published in a collection of Coleridge’s workCharles always seemed to be in

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