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i really need to know why lamb wrote under the pen name elia i am curious because elia look like women name to me in those days even women wrote under the pen name of men then why he wrote under women name?

Andre Piucci 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 S…moreLamb 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.

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