Bibliograph

L. E. L., the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron", Lucasta Miller

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L. E. L., the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron", Lucasta Miller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-377) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

L. E. L.

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1040169641

Responsibility statement

Lucasta Miller

Sub title

the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"

Summary

Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion

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Letitia Elizabeth LandonLEL

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