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Author Hitchcock, Susan Tyler.

Title Mad Mary Lamb : lunacy and murder in literary London / Susan Tyler Hitchcock.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR4865.L2 Z69 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
Contents The dreadful scene imagined -- The only daughter -- Their verdict: lunacy -- In the madhouse -- Reading, writing, and mantua making -- Charles alone -- Double singleness -- The circle forms -- Children's books -- Tales from Shakespeare -- Schoolgirl tales -- Poetry for children -- The politics of needlework -- Elia appears -- Her twilight of consciousness.
Subject Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and mental illness.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 19th century.
Authorship -- Collaboration.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Mentally ill women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Mentally ill women.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English.
Murderers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Murderers.
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 -- Family.
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Families.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0393057410