Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Mary Lamb
Born: December 3, 1764
Died: May 20, 1847 (aged 82)
Bio: Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown.
Known for:
- Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
- More Tales from Shakespeare
- Othello
- Contes de Shakespeare