Mad Mary Lamb : Lunacy and Murder in Literary London

by Hitchcock, Susan Tyler

• ISBN13: 9780393057416
• ISBN10: 0393057410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

Discusses how the subject, incarcerated within madhouses after killing her mother, became the confidante of such Romantics as Coleridge and Wordsworth and accessed literature in a way that would have been normally impossible for a woman of her class and time, describing how she and essayist brother Charles Lamb collaborated on Tales from Shakespeare. 15,000 first printing.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	9	(6)
Prelude: The Dreadful Scene Imagined	15	(164)
1 The Only Daughter	21	(9)
2 Their Verdict: Lunacy	30	(15)
3 In the Madhouse	45	(16)
4 Reading, Writing, and Mantua Making	61	(12)
5 Charles Alone	73	(20)
6 Double Singleness	93	(13)
7 The Circle Forms	106	(25)
8 Children's Books	131	(26)
9 Tales from Shakespeare	157	(22)
10 Schoolgirl Tales	179	(18)
11 Poetry for Children	197	(18)
12 The Politics of Needlework	215	(18)
13 Elia Appears	233	(22)
14 Her Twilight of Consciousness	255	(16)
Epilogue	271	(12)
Notes	283	(20)
Bibliography	303	(10)
Acknowledgments	313	(2)
Index	315