"""Elia"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Essays of Elia Lamb's fondness for stage drama provided the subjects of a number of the essays: "My First Play," "Stage Illusion," "Ellistoniana," etc. "Blakesmoor in H——shire" was actually written about Blakesware in Hertfordshire, the great house where Lamb's maternal grandmother was housekeeper for many years. Essays of Elia Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, "Last Essays of Elia", issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in "The London Magazine" in 1820 and continued to
Essays of Elia delightful of English essayists." Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. American editions of both the "Essays" and the "Last Essays" were published in Philadelphia in 1828. At the time, American publishers were unconstrained by copyright law, and often reprinted materials from English books and periodicals; so