Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb
Portrait by Henry Hoppner Meyer
Born	(1775-02-10)10 February 1775 Inner Temple, London, England
Died	27 December 1834(1834-12-27) (aged 59) Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Other names	Elia
Known for	Essays of Elia Tales from Shakespeare
Relatives	Mary Lamb (sister), John Lamb (brother; 1763–1821)

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".^[1]