The wife of John Lamb, whom she married in 1761, and mother of Charles and Mary Lamb. She was killed by her daughter Mary in a fit of insanity.

REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Lamb [née Field]:

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [27 September 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb, [28 September 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [3 October 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [17 October 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [20? September 1797 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt [21 September 1803] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Edward Moxon, 3 February 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)