Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia
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115
1833
English
- The South-Sea House
- Oxford in the Vacation
- Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
- The Two Races of Men
- New Year's Eve
- Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
- A Chapter on Ears
- All Fools' Day
- A Quaker's Meeting
- The Old and the New Schoolmaster
- Valentine's Day
- Imperfect Sympathies
- Witches, and other Night-Fears
- My Relations
- Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
- Modern Gallantry
- The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple
- Grace Before Meat
- My First Play
- Dream-Children; A Reverie
- Distant Correspondents
- The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
- A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
- A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
- A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
- On Some Old Actors
- On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century
- On the Acting of Munden
- Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia
- Blakesmoor in H—shire
- Poor Relations
- Stage Illusion
- To the Shade of Elliston
- Ellistoniana
- Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
- The Old Margate Hoy
- The Convalescent
- Sanity of True Genius
- Captain Jackson
- The Superannuated Man
- The Genteel Style in Writing
- Barbara S—
- The Tombs in the Abbey
- Amicus Redivivus
- Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney
- Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago
- Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art
- Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age
- The Wedding
- The Child Angel: a Dream
- A Death-Bed
- Old China
- Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9
- Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12
- Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16
- On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822)
- The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822)
- The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822)
Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. They were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers.
Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Lamb took the name of Elia from an old Italian clerk at the South-Sea House in Lamb's time of employment there; that is, in 1791-1792. Many of these essays contain references to Lamb's contemporaries or events of his day, which may not strike as strong a chord in the heart of the contemporary listener.
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Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Lamb took the name of Elia from an old Italian clerk at the South-Sea House in Lamb's time of employment there; that is, in 1791-1792. Many of these essays contain references to Lamb's contemporaries or events of his day, which may not strike as strong a chord in the heart of the contemporary listener.
- Summary by TriciaG
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