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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1:
The South-Sea House
2:
Oxford in the Vacation
3:
Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
4:
The Two Races of Men
5:
New Year's Eve
6:
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
7:
A Chapter on Ears
8:
All Fools' Day
9:
A Quaker's Meeting
10:
The Old and the New Schoolmaster
11:
Valentine's Day
12:
Imperfect Sympathies
13:
Witches, and other Night-Fears
14:
My Relations
15:
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
16:
Modern Gallantry
17:
The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple
18:
Grace Before Meat
19:
My First Play
20:
Dream-Children; A Reverie
21:
Distant Correspondents
22:
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
23:
A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis
24:
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
25:
A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
26:
On Some Old Actors
27:
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century
28:
On the Acting of Munden
29:
Preface, by a Friend of the late Elia
30:
Blakesmoor in H—shire
31:
Poor Relations
32:
Stage Illusion
33:
To the Shade of Elliston
34:
Ellistoniana
35:
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
36:
The Old Margate Hoy
37:
The Convalescent
38:
Sanity of True Genius
39:
Captain Jackson
40:
The Superannuated Man
41:
The Genteel Style in Writing
42:
Barbara S—
43:
The Tombs in the Abbey
44:
Amicus Redivivus
45:
Some Sonnets of Sir Philip Sydney
46:
Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago
47:
Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art
48:
Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age
49:
The Wedding
50:
The Child Angel: a Dream
51:
A Death-Bed
52:
Old China
53:
Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 1-9
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Popular Fallacies: Fallaices 10-12
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Popular Fallacies: Fallacies 13-16
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On Some of the Old Actors (London Magazine, Feb., 1822)
