Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb
Yale University Press £25
On 22nd September 1796, the 21-year-old Charles Lamb returned from his work at East India House to the family lodgings in Little Queen Street to find that his older sister, Mary, had stabbed their invalid mother through the heart with a kitchen knife.
‘I was at hand only time enough to snatch the knife out of her grasp,’ Lamb wrote to his school friend Coleridge days later.
