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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040731
Author:ALLAN MASSIE

THE DEVIL KISSED HER: THE STORY OF MARY LAMB

BY KATHY WATSON

Bloomsbury, GBP 16.99

THE LAMBS OF LONDON

BY PETER ACKROYD

Chatto & Windus, GBP 15.99

Review by ALLAN MASSIE

"CHARLES LAMB AND HIS SISTER ... A very sorry pair of phenomena," wrote Thomas Carlyle in Reminiscences. "Insuperable proclivity to gin in poor old Lamb. His talk contemptibly small, indicating wondrous ignorance and shallowness, even when it was serious and good- mannered, which it seldom was ..." An ungenerous judgment, even though he added: "A most slender fibre of actual worth there was in that poor old Charles ... ...

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