Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Pages : 590

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Pages : 1162

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Author: afterwards MACLEAN LANDON (Letitia Elizabeth)
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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Category : Poetry
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Pages : 450

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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331582390
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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Excerpt from The Complete Works of L. E. Landon The course of life is like the child's game here we go round by the rule of contrary and youth, above all others, is the season of united opposites, with all its freshness and buoyancy. At no period of our existence is depression of the Spirits more common or more painful. As we advance in life our du ties become defined; we act more from neces sity, and less from impulse; custom takes the place of energy, and feelings, no longer powerfully excited, are proportionably-quiet in reaction. But youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled; and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375412786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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On 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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Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Pages : 1060

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