Mad Mary Lamb - Lunacy and Murder in Literary London

This text discusses how Mary Lamb, 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.

About the author

Susan Tyler Hitchcock's last book was Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London. Married with two children, she lives near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hitchcock, Susan Tyler Hitchcock
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780393327533
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32753-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies