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A genius who carried his burden cheerfully

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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20030923
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A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb by Sarah Burton (Viking 16.99) I HAVE a personal interest in this book because there is a bust of Charles Lamb fixed to the wall of The Watch House, the rectory where I live in the City of London. Charles Lamb (1775- 1834) was one of the most renowned writers and wits of the 19th century, a friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth and a frequenter of dinner parties and high class booze-ups hosted by the London coterie of famous writers and literary gossips of the period. Lamb himself admitted that he had "a liking for the juniper berry". I'm not ...

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