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Charles Lamb retellings of the classic works a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. the Essays of Elia When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother. Lamb remained single and devoted the rest of his life caring for her. Literature  1.5 The Victorian Era 1837-1901 1.5.1 Novel 1.5.2 Drama 1.5.3 Neo-Romanticism and Aestheticism more more more 1.5 The Victorian Era 1.5.1 Novel the great age of the English novel Charles Dickens Jane Austen the three Bront? sisters George Eliot Thomas Hardy Charles Dickens the greatest English realist the spokesman for the poor The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist David Copperfield Bleak House A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol The Chime Oliver Twist The story of an orphan child drawn into crime in the London underworld only later to discover the error of his ways through the love and understanding of an older mentor. Jane Austen courtship and marriage herself never married Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Virginia Woolf called Austen “the most perfect artist among women.” A sentence from Austen --“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (from Pride and Prejudice, 1813) the three Bront? sisters Charlotte (1816-1855) Emily (1818-1848) Anne (1820-1849) all talented all dying young one of the saddest pages in the history of English literature. For details Story of the three Bront? sisters The Bront? family lived in the north of England on the bleak Yorkshire moors. After Anne’s birth their mother died, leaving five sisters and a brother to be raised by their clergyman father and a strict, religious aunt. Later, both eldest sisters died in their early teens. The remaining three sisters and only brother, Br