By Sara Lodge. Charles Lamb and Thomas Hood became friends when Hood joined the London Magazine, where Lamb was a star essayist.Both writers shared a liberal outlook and came together in the 1820s to take a stand against the war on homelessness created by new regulation. Sara’s talk will be about Lamb and Hood’s friendship, their similarities and differences, and how the ‘light’ and playful qualities of their writing for a long time blinded critics to the pointedly political nature of their works.

Sara Lodge is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in nineteenth- century literature and culture. She is the author of Thomas Hood and Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Jane Eyre: A Reader’s Guide to Criticism.

Our talks are free to members. Non-members welcome, £1 each, payable at the door. Booking not required.