The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.)
Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 560
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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 560
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Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 1997-10-07
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1551111357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon’s life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as “cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense.” In addition to a broad selection of Landon’s poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0375412786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.' What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the 'female Byron', admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Heinrich Heine, the young Bronte sisters and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which is only now unravelling. Too scandalous for her reputation to survive, Letitia Landon was a brilliant woman who made a Faustian pact in a ruthless world. She embodied the post-Byronic era, the 'strange pause' between the Romantics and the Victorians. This new investigation into the mystery of her life, work and death excavates a whole lost literary culture.
Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 354
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 432
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 352
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 344
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 712
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 370
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