L. E. L.
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Standard Name: L. E. L.
Birth Name: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Pseudonym: L.
Pseudonym: L. E. L.
Used Form: LEL
Used Form: L.E.L.
LEL was one of the most prolific and popular authors of her day. She produced an immense corpus of poetry, several works of fiction (the first a particularly striking silver fork novel), and considerable review and editorial work. Her work more than any other popularized the persona of the lovelorn, doomed poetess in the early nineteenth century.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Howitt | On L. E. L.
's marriage MH
took over from her the editorship of the annual or gift book Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook, for which she did much writing; she did not, however, enjoy this work. Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 90 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | The starting-point for the poem is the tradition (subtly questioned) of Sappho's suicide as an abandoned woman; this fact links the text to other responses to the topic by other women poets including Felicia Hemans |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Determined to be a writer, MJJ
actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard
, dramatist James Robinson Planché
, the Rev. George Robert Gleig
, and Sir Walter Scott |
Dedications | Maria Jane Jewsbury | In the Drawing-Room Scrapbook for 1839 MJJ
published a poem to the annual's former editor: To L.E.L
after meeting her for the first time. Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle. 154 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Anonymity gave MJJ
freedom to satirize contemporary literary culture—particularly male writers. Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 36 |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | It seeks to enlarge vocabulary by omitting words and leaving the young readers to supply the gaps. Topics include life in other countries. The book features poetry by L. E. L.
and Wordsworth
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Fanny Aikin Kortright | FAK
's literary allusions here are interesting. Thomas Hood
's The Song of the Shirt is cited more than once, though Kortright insists that the governess is worse off than the seamstress because she is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amy Levy | AL
acknowledged the influence on her poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Goethe
, Heine
, Robert Browning
, Swinburne
(whose poem Félise she answered in Félise to Her Lover), and James Thomson
(the... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | In London after her father's death, Jane Webb was a frequent visitor to the family of |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
issued her first number as editor of the Book of Beauty (an annual Christmas gift book, then in its second year); she succeeded L.E.L.
in this post. Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 249 Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 233 |
Health | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | She was under considerable financial pressure as a result not only of her large entertainments but of dependent family members, pensioned servants, and others whom she aided, including the mother of L.E.L.
She wrote to... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | In the plot, Jim is suspected in the murder of a policeman, but later becomes sensibly disillusioned with repeal. Grace improves her natural goodness by reading the Bible in an almost Protestant manner. She ministers... |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Critic Paula R. Feldman
writes that she filled in the gaps in each literary annual with her own poetry or prose. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 150 |
Fictionalization | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive... |
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