

To support the family, who did not have much money, Mary had done needlework and it was thought that her mental illness could have been caused by overwork. Her mother had been an invalid for many years and Mary had cared for her. On SeptemMary stabbed and killed her mother 'in a fit of madness'.

The five bedrooms are spread across the top two floors and there's a dining room, reception room and bathroom on the ground floor as well as two exits which lead to the spacious gardenĬharles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge but when he was 20 years old he suffered a period of insanity much like his sister.
