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The Devil Kissed Her
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The Devil Kissed Her Hardcover - 2004

by Kathy Watson

Kathy Watson explores Mary Lamb's famous crime and her remarkable relationship with her brother Charles.

Author Mary Lamb, long considered by historians a mere adjunct to her brother Charles, was a woman of contradictions: fiercely domestic yet unmarried; maternal yet childless; a peaceful, loving woman susceptible to bouts of extreme violence.

In this fascinating book, Kathy Watson traces the extraordinary intertwined lives of Mary Lamb and her brother Charles, authors of the perennial children's book Tales of Shakespeare. Their uncommonly close relationship-an ersatz marriage-was bound ever closer after Mary murdered their mother with a carving knife during a psychotic episode. Sharing the same constellation of friends-Coleridge and Wordsworth among them-yet plagued by Mary's manic depression, the Lambs' lives have long been shrouded in ambiguity.

In The Devil Kissed Her, Watson documents the nature of Mary's mental illness and the terrible crime she committed in its haze, the lifelong devotion of Charles, and the brother and sister's dual existence in both the calm domesticity of their home life and the bedlam of nineteenth-century mental asylums.


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  • Title The Devil Kissed Her
  • Author Kathy Watson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 245
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tarcher, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-09-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781585423569 / 1585423564
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 5.78 x 0.89 in (21.69 x 14.68 x 2.26 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004055354
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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