{i} family name; Charles Lamb (1775-1834) English essayist and poet who used the pen name "Elia", author of the children's book "Tales From Shakespeare" together with his sister Mary Lamb; Mary Lamb(1764-1847) English writer, wrote the children's book "Tales From Shakespeare" together with her brother Charles Lamb, in 1796 she suffered a breakdown and attacked and wounded their father and stabbed and killed their mother with a kitchen knife