Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W. C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal whose life of genius and insanity make this true story both fascinating and unique. BOMC.

Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.

Discusses how the subject, incarcerated within madhouses after killing her mother, became the confidante of such Romantics as Coleridge and Wordsworth and accessed literature in a way that would have been normally impossible for a woman of her class and time, describing how she and essayist brother Charles Lamb collaborated on Tales from Shakespeare. Reprint.

A thoughtful portrait of Mary Lamb who, along with her brother Charles, was responsible for the classic children's book Tales from Shakespeare, details the fierce contradictions of her life, a uniquely close relationship with her brother, her mental illness, and the terrible murder of their mother during a psychotic episode. 10,000 first printing.

The first literary biography of the 'poets' poet' chornicles his birth into poverty, his work as an agricultural laborer, his relationship with John Keats, and his career as a writer. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant-poet and how Clare performed this role on stages such as the London Magazine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out of Essex. Maps of Clare's countryside, his will, and extracts from his asylum letters are also included, presenting the author in all his guises—ploughboy, gardener, and militiaman; lover and husband; acquaintance of Hazlitt, Lamb, and Coleridge; and finally, inmate in an asylum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author, who was admitted to a mental hospital at the age of twelve, criticizes the care she received and describes her current life

Product Description: . with dustjacket, 1982 clean bright copy