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The Lamb
(1,338)
Pub
Small Victorian pub with a no-music policy, old-fashioned interior, and traditional British menu.
Address: 94 Lamb's Conduit St, London WC1N 1EA, United Kingdom
Hours: Closed ⋅ Opens 11 AM
Phone: +44 20 7405 0713
People also ask
Why did Lamb remain unmarried?
On 20 July 1819, at age 44, Lamb, who, because of family commitments, had never married, fell in love with an actress, Fanny Kelly, of Covent Garden, and besides writing her a sonnet he also proposed marriage. She refused him, and he died a bachelor.
What is Charles Lamb's pen name?
Using the pen-name 'Elia', Lamb wrote on various historical and topical subjects with nostalgia, warmth and humorous intelligence and his collected Essays of Elia (1823) was a huge success.
What are the prose works of Charles Lamb?
This book is a collection of essays and other works by Charles Lamb, a 19th-century English writer and essayist. The collection includes his popular essays 'Dream Children: A Reverie', 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig', and 'On the Melancholy of Tailors', among others.
Who were the contemporaries of Charles Lamb?
He was a near contemporary there of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and of Leigh Hunt. In 1792 Lamb found employment as a clerk at East India House (the headquarters of the East India Company), remaining there until retirement in 1825.
Pub in Islington, near Angel Station and just off City Road. Note: According to the Oct/Nov 2021 London Drinker , the Charles Lamb was "noted in August as ...