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Lamb, Charles (1775–1834)

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Charles Lamb was born in London at Crown Office Row, where his father was clerk to Samuel Salt, a Bencher of the Inner Temple. Charles was educated from 1782 to 1789 at Christ’s Hospital in Newgate Street, where he began a lifelong friendship with Coleridge; then he worked briefly for Joseph Pake and in the South Sea House before, in 1792, entering the East India House, where he remained until he retired in March 1825.

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Wedd, M. (1992). Lamb, Charles (1775–1834). In: Raimond, J., Watson, J.R. (eds) A Handbook to English Romanticism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22288-9_43

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