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Photographer: Henry Hoppner Meyer (image courtesy of the New York Public Library)
Taken: 1828
Caption: Charles Lamb
Additional Description: "Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847)....Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as 'the most lovable figure in English literature'." - Wikipedia
Submitted: December 11, 2017, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p407842
File Size: 0.055 Megabytes

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