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Mary Lamb

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(1764 - 1847)

Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb on the collection Tales from Shakespeare.



Bibliography

Old Fashioned Tales (1905)

Nineteen stories from the earliest children’s literature. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Tales from Shakespeare (1899)

Brief prose versions of the most famous Shakespeare plays. Mary did the comedies, Charles did the tragedies. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Tales from Shakespeare (1909)

This edition of prose versions of Shakespeare’s best known plays has colored illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Tales from Shakespeare (1918)

A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.

Tales from Shakespeare (1922)

An unusually well illustrated edition of this classic, including twenty of the plays. The Comedies were done by Mary; the tragedies by Charles. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Tales from Shakespeare (1923)

Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1912)

Six volumes. The gilt device on the cover is by Bedford. This is the foolscap octavo edition, which includes new material not in the large paper edition of 1903-5. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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