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L. E. L.: the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: the celebrated ''female Byron''

By Landon , Lucasta , Letitia Elizabeth;Miller

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2019
ISBN
9780525655350, 9780375412783, 9783319567501, 0375412786
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
90 MB (94518415 bytes)
Pages
xii, 401 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Abbildungen
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1802-1838Biografie;LandonLetitia Elizabeth

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A lost nineteenth century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered—Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality—by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining . . . spellbinding"—New York Times Book Review; "ingenious"—The New Yorker)."None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"—L.E.L., "Lines of Life" Letitita Elizabeth Landon—pen name L.E.L.—dared to say it and made sure she was heard. Hers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped...

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