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Through Charles Lamb’s writings, publishing networks, and the worlds of hospitals such as Bedlam, the study traces how madness, family devotion, and authorship intersect. The narrative also illuminates the emergence of children’s literature and the networks of women and men shaping London’s intellectual life.","SUSAN TYLER HITCHCOCK  \ncMa3 cMary史ambLunacy and Murder in Literary London  \nMore praise for Susan Tyler Hitchcock and Mad Mary Lamb  \n“Another deft portrait of the woman who murdered her motherand later joined with her better-known brother Charles to writeTales from Shakespear.Hitchcock(Coming About,1998,etc.)divesinto a deep and rich sea teeming with literary life....Informedand sympathetic.”—Kirkus Reviews  \n\"Hitchcock's book is first-rate,an engaging work of scholarshiplucidly written.”—Buffalo News  \n\"[Hitchcock provides]glimpses of 19th century London worldsnot often visited:the Bethlehem hospital—'Bedlam’—and otherfacilities for the mentally ill;and the emerging industry of pub-lishing books for children,where the Lambs found a tidy marketniche among pre-adolescent female readers....Presents Marywith feminist sympathy.”—Wall Street Journal  \n“Susan Tyler Hitchcock's book,Mad Mary Lamb,has the thrills andchills of a novel,the careful documentation of a work of scholar-ship,and the sophisticated craft of a truly excellent piece ofwriting.She manages to combine these elements with grace andpizzazz.A'must read,'and a major contribution.”  \n—Frances Sherwood,author ofVindication,Green,and The Book of Splendor  \n“With energy,clarity,compassion,meticulous research,and adeeply empathetic imagination,Susan Tyler Hitchcock has heresummoned up from the shadowy past the life and times,at oncetragic and triumphant,of the greatly gifted Mary Lamb.Mad MaryLamb is a powerful story told with passion,authenticity,andgrace,a significant contribution to our knowledge and under-standing of the bygone age.”—George Garrett,.author of Death ofthe Fox and Entered from the Sun  \n\"Mad Mary Lamb is a wonderful book:a fascinating story,beauti-fully written,it is.a superb account of the complicated intersec-tion of insanity and literature.Hitchcock’s portrayal of the darkbut riveting world of Mary Lamb is excellent.”  \n—Kay Redfeld Jamison,author of An Unquiet Mindand Exuberance:The Passion for Life  \n“An absorbing account of madness,catastrophe,and creativity inearly nineteenth-century England.The story's stars—mad buttalented Mary Lamb and her devoted brother,the witty essayistCharles Lamb—come vividly to life in these pages.”  \n—Sandra M.Gilbert,coauthor of The Madwoman in the Attic:TheWomanWriter and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination  \n\"Susan Tyler Hitchcock's archival archaeology and sympatheticimagination combine powerfully to reconstruct a terrible,trans-forming moment in the life of a complicated woman who hasreceived too little attention.With skill and sensitivity,Hitchcockmakes a fully persuasive case for the importance of Mary Lamb tothe history of intelligent,creative women.”  \n—Stephen Cushman,author of  \nNation of Letters:A Concise History of American Literature  \n“Susan Tyler Hitchcock opens a window for us into the soul of aremarkable woman,sister of the essayist Charles Lamb,whokilled their mother with a carving knife and then went on overseveral decades to read and write her way back toward somethingapproaching sanity.This is a compelling tale of murder,mentalill-ness,familial love,and literary redemption.Hitchcock's powerfulnarrative also provides wonderful insights into nineteenth-century literary London,the birth of children's literature inEngland,and the lives of a fascinating circle of women and men.”  \n—B.Ashton Nichols,author of The Revolutionary“I”:Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation  \nMadMary Lamb  \n# LuNACY AND MURDER\n\nIN  \n# LITERARY LoNDON\n\nSusan Tyler Hitchcock  \nQUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARYFLUSHING BBANCH100  41-17 MAIN STREETFLSHING.NY.1135OM   ANY IIWW.W.NORTON &COMPAN  \nNEW YORK·LONDON  \nCopyright C2005 by Susan Tyler Hitchcock  \nAll rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of AmericaFirst published as a 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