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Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb : Mrs Leicester's School

Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher, Margaret Wooler, 28 August 1848:

'Do you remember once speaking with approbation of a book called "Mrs Leicester's School," which you said you had met with, and you wondered by whom it was written? I was reading the other day a lately published collection of the "Letters of Charles Lamb," edited by Serjeant Talfourd, where I found it mentioned that "Mrs Leicester's School" was the first production of Lamb and his sister. These letters are themselves singularly interesting; they have hitherto been suppressed in all previous collections of works and relics, on account of the frequent allusions they contain to the unhappy malady of Miss Lamb [goes on to recount incident of Mary Lamb's killing of her mother, and Charles's subsequent care of her] [...] I thought it both a sad and edifying history.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wooler      Print: Book

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