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The ‘Female Byron’
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The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets.
By Nicholas Dames
The story ended in October 1838 in modern-day Ghana, at Cape Coast Castle, a British commercial garrison and a former slave-trading post. There, the recently married 36-year-old wife of the chief British official, George Maclean, was found by her maid dead on the floor of her dressing room, an empty prescription bottle of highly toxic prussic acid in her hand. Nearby, probably in Accra, were the governor’s “country wife” and her several children; upon the new wife’s arrival from the literary precincts of London, they had been discreetly removed from the castle. Rumors would soon circulate in Britain that the governor’s previous consort was the murderer, though no evidence emerged to support those suspicions. On the desk was an unsent letter, banal and cheerful, rather than a suicide note.
The enigmatic celebrity death was of a piece with the life. Under the pen name “L.E.L.,” Letitia Elizabeth Landon had been one of the
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
British poet and novelist (1802–1838)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon | |
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838); variation of the original painting by Daniel Maclise | |
| Born | (1802-08-14)14 August 1802 Chelsea, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 15 October 1838(1838-10-15) (aged 36) Cape Coast Castle, Ashanti Empire (now in Ghana) |
| Other names | Letitia Elizabeth Maclean L. E. L. Iole |
| Occupation | writer |
| Known for | Poetry Fiction Reviews |
| Style | Post-Romantic |
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.[1][2] Her influence can also b
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Chelsea, 14 de agosto de 1802 - Cape Coast, †15 de octubre de 1838) fue una poetisa y novelista británica, más conocida por sus iniciales L. E. L. más que como Miss Landon o Mrs. Maclean, descendía de una vieja familia de Herefordshire. Poetisa de la escuela lakista.
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[editar]Letitia acudió a una escuela en Chelsea donde recibió educación igualmente Mary Russell Mitford. Su padre, un agente del ejército, amasó una gran fortuna, que perdió especulando poco antes de su muerte. Alrededor de 1815 los Landon conocieron a William Jerdan y en los veinte del siglo XIX comenzó a realizar contribuciones a su semanario Literary Gazette que Jerdan editaba, y a varios anuarios cristianos.
También publicó varios volúmenes de verso, que pronto le reportaron fama literaria. La gentil melancolía y sentimiento romántico de sus escritos personificaban el gusto adecuado al período, y le hubiera asegurado en cualquier caso su simpatía y aprobación de una amplia clase de lectores. Muestra riqueza de gusto y aptitud en
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