There has always been a small but enduring following for Lamb's works, as the long-running and still-active Charles Lamb Bulletin demonstrates. Because of his quirky, even bizarre, style, he has been more of a "cult favourite" than an author with mass popular or scholarly appeal. Anne Fadiman notes regretfully that Lamb is not widely read in modern times: "I do not understand why so few other readers are clamoring for his company... [He] is kept alive largely through the tenuous resuscitations of university English departments.".[29]
Two of the houses at Christ's Hospital (Lamb A and Lamb B) are named in his honour.[30] and he is also honoured by The Latymer School, a grammar school in Edmonton, a suburb of London where he lived for a time: it has six houses, one of which, Lamb, is named after him.[31] A major academic prize awarded each year at Christ's Hospital School's speech day is "The Lamb Prize for Independent Study".
Sir Edward Elgar wrote an orchestral work, Dream Children, inspired by Lamb's essay of that title.
A quotation from Lamb, "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once",' serves as the epigraph to Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Charles Lamb pub in Islington is named after him.[32]
Henry James Montague, founder of The Lambs Club, named it after the salon of Charles and his sister Mary.
Charles Lamb plays an important role in the plot of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
