Charles Lamb [Elia]

(1775-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 NRA: Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) Essayist and Humorist DNB: Lamb, Charles (1775-1834), essayist LBT ID: ChLamb1834 VIAF ID: 64007908 LOC ID: n79067888	B/BAP: 1775-02-10 DIED: 1834-12-27
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English essayist and boyhood friend of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital; author of Essays of Elia published in the London Magazine (collected 1823, 1833) and other works.
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “Saint Crispin to Mr. Giffard” in The Examiner (3 October 1819) 635 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)