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. - Summary by TriciaG
The South-Sea HouseOxford in the VacationChrist's Hospital Five and Thirty Years AgoThe Two Races of MenNew Year's EveMrs. Battle's Opinions on WhistA Chapter on EarsAll Fools' DayA Quaker's MeetingThe Old and the New SchoolmasterValentine's DayImperfect SympathiesWitches, and other Night-FearsMy RelationsMackery End, in HertfordshireModern GallantryThe Old Benchers of the Inner TempleGrace Before MeatMy First PlayDream-Children; A ReverieDistant CorrespondentsThe Praise of Chimney-SweepersA Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the MetropolisA Dissertation upon Roast PigA Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married PeopleOn Some Old ActorsOn the Artificial Comedy of the Last CenturyOn the Acting of MundenPreface, by a Friend of the late EliaBlakesmoor in H—shirePoor RelationsStage IllusionTo the Shade of EllistonEllistonianaDetached Thoughts on Books and ReadingThe Old Margate HoyThe ConvalescentSanity of True GeniusCaptain JacksonThe Superannuated ManThe Genteel Style in WritingBarbara S—The Tombs in the AbbeyAmicus RedivivusSome Sonnets of Sir Philip SydneyNewspapers Thirty-five Years AgoBarrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern ArtRejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of AgeThe WeddingThe Child Angel: a DreamA Death-BedOld ChinaPopular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822)The Old Actors (London Magazine, April, 1822)The Old Actors (London Magazine, October, 1822)
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