Author?

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which author witnessed his authoress sister murder their mother with a carving knife?

[shaneystar2]

Charles Lamb. His sister Mary, in a sudden fit of insanity, killed her mother with a table-knife. Thenceforward, giving up a marriage to which he was looking forward, he devoted himself to the care of his unfortunate sister, who became, except when separated from him by periods of aberration, his lifelong and affectionate companion�the �Cousin Bridget� of his essays.

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cheers shaneystar2!

[Filawrie]

Charles Lamb, I think, without checking