[1822] - Lamb’s Elia published – the first collected volume of Elia essays

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) reading three books at once by candlelight, as portrayed by Daniel Maclise

Useful Links and Further Reading

• University of Louisiana, ‘Elia: Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine’,
  http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jer6616/elia%281823%29.htm
• University of Pennsylvania, ‘Online Books by Charles Lamb’,
  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Lamb%2C%20Charles%2C%201775–1834
• Internet Archive, ‘The Essays of Elia’,
  http://www.archive.org/details/essayseliacharle00lamb
• LibriVox, ‘Online Works by Charles Lamb’,
  https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?title=&author=Charles+Lamb&action=Search
• Simon Hull, ‘The Ideology of the Unspectacular: Theatricality and Charles Lamb’s Essayistic Figure’, Romanticism on the Net, 46 (2007),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2007/v/n46/016134ar.html
• Roy Park, ed., Lamb as Critic (London, 1980)
• Charles Lamb, Elia and the Last Essays of Elia, ed. Jonathan Bate (Oxford, 1987)
• Duncan Wu, ‘Charles Lamb, Elia’, in A Companion to Romanticism, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, 1999), 277–82
• Gerald Monsman, ‘Satiric Models for Charles Lamb’s “Dissertation upon a Roast Pig”’, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 33.1 (2006), 1–27
• Felicity James, Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s (Basingstoke, 2008)
• Simon Hull, Charles Lamb, Elia, and the London Magazine (London, 2010)