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Also Known As Elia
Born February 10, 1775 • London • England
Died December 27, 1834 (aged 59) • England
Notable Works “Essays of Elia” • “Last Essays of Elia” • “Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespear” • “Tales from Shakespear”
Notable Family Members sister Mary Ann Lamb

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Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
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Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
British author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
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Nahum Tate
English writer
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
British author and producer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
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Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
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Otto Ludwig
German writer
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Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
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Alexander Dyce
Scottish editor
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Cowden Clarke
English editor and critic
John Gielgud
John Gielgud
British actor and director
Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
British actor and manager
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom
British actress
Ireland, William-Henry
William-Henry Ireland
British forger
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
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Delia Salter Bacon
American author
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Gregorio MartĂ­nez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
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MihĂĄly Babits
Hungarian author
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Ian Bannen
Scottish actor

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