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Mary Lamb

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(1764 - 1847)

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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.



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Old Fashioned Tales (1905)

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

Author(s): Thomas Day
Maria Edgeworth
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Catherine Sinclair
Et al
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

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Tales from Shakespeare (1899)

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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

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Tales from Shakespeare (1909)

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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

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Tales from Shakespeare (1918)

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

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Tales from Shakespeare (1922)

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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.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): Elizabeth Shippen Green

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Tales from Shakespeare (1923)

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Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (1912)

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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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