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YOUNG CHARLES LAMB 1775-1802 Charles Lamb at 29, dressed as a Venetian Senator; by William Hazlitt, 1804. One of Hazlitt's most sensitive portraits before he gave up painting for writing. (Hazlitt first met Lamb in 1803) National Portrait Gallery YOUNG CHARLES LAMB 775-r8o2 1 Winifred F. Courtney PALGRAV E MACMILLAN © Winifred F. Courtney 1982, 1984 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission Fz'rst Edz'tz'on 1982 Reprz'nted 1984 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basz'ngstoke Companz'es and representatz'ves throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-36379-9 ISBN 978-1-349-07056-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-07056-5 For Denis I had no notion what an exquisite writer Lamb is; and thus I have a juster opinion of Miss V. S.: and God knows how I shall have the courage to dip my pen tomorrow. -Virginia Woolf (as Miss Stephen) to Clive Bell, xgo8, from The Flight of the Mind, Volume 1 of The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. and Hogarth Press Ltd, 1975) Contents List of Illustrations IX Acknowledgments x Note on Riferencing xm Genealogical Trees XIV Introduction xvi I Starting Off 2 A Company of Witches I 2 3 Diversions I 8 The Times: No Popery, I 780 29 4 Schooling and Schoolfellows 34 The Times: The New Men and Women 50 5 Young City Man 58 6~~m ~ 7 Coleridge 84 The Times: Church, State and the Young Radicals 95 8 Difficulties 99 9 Disaster I I4 I o Loneliness I 20 I I To Nether Stowey I36 I 2 Charles Lloyd I 4 7 I 3 The Tragic Poet I 55 I4 The Break with Coleridge I6o I 5 The Quaker Lloyds I 75 I6 Political Lamb 186 I 7 New Friends: Dyer and Southey 203 I8 Robert Lloyd and John Woodvil 2I5 I9 Cheerfulness Breaks In 225 20 Mary Lamb-and Coleridge-Come Home 235 2 I Thomas Manning 245 22 Godwin 259 23 The Move to London 268 24 Lamb Among the Lions 278 The Times: Theatrical Interlude 291 Vll Vlll Contents 25 Antonio 26 The Journalist: 1801-2 27 Lamb and Co.: Life and Letters, 1801-2 Appendix A 341 Appendix B 343 Notes 347 Selected Bibliography 378 Index 387 List of Illustrations Frontispiece Charles Lamb dressed as a Venetian Senator, I 8o4, by William Hazlitt Plate I Places associated with Lamb, drawn by an unknown artist: 7 Little Queen Street; Blenheims, the Ann Simmons Cottage at Widford; Interior of the Salu tation and Cat; 45 Chapel Street, Pentonville Plate II The Robert Hancock Portraits, I 796-8: William Wordsworth; Robert Southey; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Charles Lamb Plate III The Lloyds: Charles Lloyd the Poet, by John Constable; Robert Lloyd, artist unknown; Sophia Lloyd and Child, by John Constable Plate IV 'New Morality', cartoon by James Gillray Plate V John Thelwall, Joseph Priestley and others, detail from 'Copenhagen House', by James Gillray, 1795 Plate VI Some of Lamb's close friends who were radicals: Thomas Holcroft and William Godwin, I 794, by Sir Thomas Lawrence; Thomas Manning, by an un known artist; George Dyer in I 795, by J. Cristall Plate VII Hester Savory, miniature, artist unknown IX
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