5/24/2023 0 Comments Charles and mary lamb![]() ![]() They wrote three books together, numerous ones individually, and often shared living quarters. Despite their 11-year age difference, Charles and Mary were close from very beginning. Charles (1775 - 1834) and Mary (1764 - 1847) Lamb are English siblings best known for their book, Tales of Shakespeare, a juvenile simplification of twenty of the bard's plays, which has never been out of print since its first publication in 1807. Both worked at other jobs for most of their adult lives-Charles as an accounting clerk for the British East India Tea Company Mary, as a dressmaker, doing their writing on the side. ![]()
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