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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a famous English poet of her time, was found dead in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, with a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was the mother of three illegitimate children and became the subject of a cover-up after her death. This new investigation into her life, work, and death excavates a lost literary culture of the 1820s and 1830s.
Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 16 May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
A renowned poet, a mysterious death, and a story that defies belief…
*FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020*
On October 15, 1838, the lifeless body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was discovered in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa. In her hand, she held a bottle of Prussic acid. She was one of the most celebrated English poets of her era: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.'
What brought her to Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or was it a suicide, or perhaps even a murder?
To her contemporaries, she was an icon, revered as the 'female Byron,' admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Heinrich Heine, the young Brontë sisters, and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with hidden depths, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently erased from official records. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up that is only now unraveling.
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 her life, work, and death excavates a whole lost literary culture.
'Sensational material brought expertly to life; but Millers real gift to the reader is her patient reconstruction of the "lost literary generation" 1820s and 1830s. Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times'
Weight: 764g
Dimension: 237 x 156 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780224079396
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