Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845; Prison reformers -- Biography
"The story of Mary Lamb has long been familiar to the readers of
Elia, but never in its entirety as in the monograph which Mrs. Anne
Gilchrist has just contributed to the Famous Women Series. Darkly
hinted at by Talfourd in his Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, it
became better known as the years went on and that imperfect work
was followed by fuller and franker biographies,--became so well
known, in fact, that no one could recall the memory of Lamb without
recalling at the same time the memory of his sister."--_New York
Mail and Express._
"A biography of Mary Lamb must inevitably be also, almost more, a
biography of Charles Lamb, so completely was the life of the sister
encompassed by that of her brother; and it must be allowed that
Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has performed a difficult biographical task
with taste and ability.... The reader is at least likely to lay
down the book with the feeling that if Mary Lamb is not famous she
certainly deserves to be, and that a debt of gratitude is due Mrs.
Gilchrist for this well-considered record of her life."--_Boston
Courier._
"Mary Lamb, who was the embodiment of everything that is tenderest
in woman, combined with this a heroism which bore her on for a
while through the terrors of insanity. Think of a highly
intellectual woman struggling year after year with madness,
triumphant over it for a season, and then at last succumbing to it.
The saddest lines that ever were written are those descriptive of
this brother and sister just before Mary, on some return of
insanity, was to leave Charles Lamb. 'On one occasion Mr. Charles
Lloyd met them slowly pacing together a little foot-path in Hoxton
Fields, both weeping bitterly, and found, on joining them, that
they were taking their solemn way to the accustomed asylum.' What
pathos is there not here?"--_New York Times._
"This life was worth writing, for all records of weakness
conquered, of pain patiently borne, of success won from difficulty,
of cheerfulness in sorrow and affliction, make the world better.
Mrs. Gilchrist's biography is unaffected and simple. She has told
the sweet and melancholy story with judicious sympathy, showing
always the light shining through darkness."--_Philadelphia Press._
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ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.
MARGARET FULLER'S WORKS AND MEMOIRS.
WOMAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, and kindred papers relating to the
Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Woman. Edited by her brother, ARTHUR B.
FULLER, with an Introduction by HORACE GREELEY. In 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
ART, LITERATURE, AND THE DRAMA. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
LIFE WITHOUT AND LIFE WITHIN; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and
Poems. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
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