Charles Lamb: References & Edit History

The standard biography is E.V. Lucas, The Life of Charles Lamb, 5th ed. rev., 2 vol. (1921, reprinted 1968). George L. Barnett, Charles Lamb (1976); and Winifred F. Courtney, Young Charles Lamb, 1775–1802 (1982), are shorter treatments. Roy Park (ed.), Lamb as Critic (1980), is an anthology of Lamb’s critical writings and a reassessment of him as a critic. Other critical works are Gerald Monsman, Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb’s Art of Autobiography (1984); and Jane Aaron, A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (1991).