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Book Description
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller’s son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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A matter-of-lie affair
Mary Lamb once wrote to a female friend of ‘a knack I know I have of looking into people’s real characters, and never expecting them to act out of it — never expecting another to do as I would do in the same case’. The Lambs of London is the most rec ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 256 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099472090
- ISBN-13: 9780099472094
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Pub date: Sep 26, 2005
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780099472094 | Paperback | $11.06 | $9.41 | The Book Depository |
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Sara Caccivio 
Bard times
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus £15.99, pp216 Curious, melancholy Charles Lamb has always appealed to Peter Ackroyd. The Georgian essayist, tender and puckish, with a weakness for oddity and alcohol, is one of the great chronicle ... (read full critics)