Editing South Sea Company (section)

== In fiction ==
* [[David Liss]]' historical-mystery novel ''[[A Conspiracy of Paper]]'', set in 1720 London, is focused on the South Sea Company at the top of its power, its fierce rivalry with the [[Bank of England]] and the events leading up to the collapse of the "bubble".
* [[Charles Lamb]]'s essay ''The South-Sea House'' (1820) in ''[[Essays of Elia]]'' – Lamb once worked in the South Sea House, and adopted his pseudonym (Elia) from a coworker there.
* [[Charles Dickens]] novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators:
** ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (1839) – Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.
** ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' (1844) – Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble, is in essence a classic [[Ponzi scheme]].
** ''[[David Copperfield]]'' (1850) – The false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield.
** ''[[Little Dorrit]]'' (1857) – The financial house of Mr Merdle.
* [[Robert Goddard (novelist)|Robert Goddard]]'s novel ''Sea Change'' (2000) covers the aftermath of the "bubble" and the attempts by politicians to evade responsibility and prevent a [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] restoration.