Lamb Arts Festival at All Saints Church, Edmonton, North London
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Charles and Mary Lamb by Francis Stephen Cary
The Lamb Arts Festival 2019: Saturday 22nd to Friday 28th June.
An arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb.
You can find last year's Festival Diary here - 2018 LAMB FESTIVAL DIARY
2019 POETRY Competition Themes - 'The Three Friends' or 'Going or Gone' - Rules and Application Forms: 2019 POETRY COMPETITION APPLICATION FORM AND RULES
2017 PHOTOGRAPHY Competition Themes - 'Love's Labour Lost' and/or 'Beauty's Pattern' - Rules and Application Forms: 2019 PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION APPLICATION FORM AND RULES
You can read the 2018 Poetry Competition Winners here: 2018 POETRY COMPETITION WINNERS
Charles and Mary Lamb
In 1847, at the age of 82, Mary Lamb died and was buried alongside her brother Charles in the churchyard of All Saints, Edmonton.
During their lifetimes, Charles and Mary were a central part of a literary circle which included such figures as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt. They were the authors of essays, poems and plays. Their most enduring literary legacy was their 'Tales from Shakespeare', prose versions of some of Shakespeare's plays written especially for children. (You can buy a copy through the 'Vicar Recommends' page of this website).
Click here for a link to The Charles Lamb Society.
Charles and Mary Lamb are both buried in the churchyard at All Saints, and since 2013 their legacy has been celebrated at All Saints with an annual week-long Arts Festival.
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