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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Lucasta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Poets, English--19th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838.

L. E. L.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

LEL

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

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.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Miller, Lucasta, author. L. E. L.

ISBN:

9780375412783

0375412786

OCLC:

1040169641