Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London (Organization and Strategy)

by SusanTylerHitchcock (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $4.21

  In Hitchcock's retelling, the sensational story of Mary Lamb, who murdered her mother with a carving knife, becomes a study of 19th-century literary London, mental illness and literary redemption. Hitchcock also recovers from obscurity Mary's work and life, which were both, in different ways, collaborations with her brother, the essayist Charles La