WorkCharles Lamb

Essays of Elia

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Documented 1845

Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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“The name of Lamb is fame; we believe there was never a reader so dull as to deny his claims to admiration and to love.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Essays of Elia . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 September 1845. · 10 September 1845