Lamb, Mary Ann (1764–1847)
| English writer. She was the elder sister of Charles Lamb. Mentally unstable, she stabbed and killed her mother 1796 and was placed in the custody of her brother. She wrote the 14 comedies and he the six tragedies in Tales from Shakespeare 1807. |
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