The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb

by Charles Lamb, Jr., Mary Anne Lamb

2018 · Cornell University Press

All of the available letters of Charles Lamb, a master of the English essay, and his sister Mary Anne published in this definitive, scrupulously edited work. The letters, many of them written to illustrious figures of the Romantic period, are generally agreed to rank among the finest in the English language. Transcribing where possible from the originals or facsimiles, Professor Marrs corrects textual errors found in previous editions, and he pays particular attention to establishing precise dates for the correspondence. He includes letters that were omitted from the last collection (published in 1935 and long out of print), and he has uncovered more than eighty letters never published before. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb totals five or six volumes, and presents nearly 1200 letters written by Charles and Mary, singly or together. The correspondence is fully annotated, the volumes are illustrated, and the holographic idiosyncrasies of the originals are rendered typographically wherever possible. Rich in revelations about the extraordinary lives of the Lambs, these beautifully written letters are an inexhaustible store of information about the Romantic era and its major figures-Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge. The publication of unexpurgated and authoritative texts is an important literary event. The first volume was published in 1975, the bicentenary of Charles Lamb's birth. It contains 102 letters written by Charles, many of them after Mary murdered their mother. Among the recipients were the poets Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth. The letters provide shrewd observations on his friends' writings and his own, vivid descriptions of life in London, and compassionate but candid remarks concerning his family and acquaintances. Notes to each letter place it in context, quoting where necessary from the correspondence Lamb is answering. Volume I includes Professor Marrs's extensive Introduction to the entire collection. After supplying a biography of the Lamb family up to the murder, he treats Mary's and Charles's life together until Charles's death, tracing through the letters a relationship that remained warm and affectionate even under the shadow of Mary's insanity. Professor Marrs also gives the publishing history of the letters and sets forth the principles upon which his edition is based.

The Quotable Sagittarius

by Mary Valby

2012 · SCB Distributors

The Quotable Sagittarius describes the cheerful, adventuresome Sagittarius personality with more than 600 quotes and examples from famous Sagittarians like Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Jamie Foxx and Taylor Swift. Sagittarians describe the natural Talents for honesty and travel in one chapter, addressing Challenges like foot-in-mouth disease and lack of focus in another. Chapters about Work, Creativity, Sports and Relationships show how the Sagittarius traits of curiosity and people orientation come through in specific arenas. The Quotable Sagittarius reveals a dozen Sagittarius specialties such as more alpine ski champions and more teenage girl pop stars than any other zodiac sign.

The Victim of Prejudice - Second Edition

by Mary Hays

1998 · Broadview Press

Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790’s. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without ‘servitude in prostitution.’ The Victim of Prejudice—Hays’ second novel, first published in 1799—is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women’s confinement becomes real as the heroine’s worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality. The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.

Opening The Nursery Door

by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson

2012 · Routledge

Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhood has been considered, shaped and schooled through literacy practices, and the hitherto ignored role of women educators in early childhood across all classes.

The Quotable Aquarius

by Mary Valby

2012 · SCB Distributors

The Quotable Aquarius describes the innovative, objective Aquarius personality with more than 600 quotes and examples from famous Aquarians Abraham Lincoln, Charles Dickens, Oprah Winfrey, Justin Timberlake and more. Material is organized by Aquarian traits like Individuality, Vision, and Erratic Behavior and includes more than a dozen Aquarian specialties such as more U.S. Presidents and more superstar athletes than any other zodiac sign. The book includes more than 75 Aquarian leaders, 150 Aquarian artists, 100 Aquarian athletes, and 150 famous Aquarian relationships.