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.
Black and white photograph of a three-quarter length drawing of L.E.L. in chalk and pencil by Daniel Maclise, early 1830s. She is wearing a white dress whose wasp waist is accentuated by a broad belt, large billowing skirt and upper sleeves, and high standaway collar. Her dark, shining hair is centre-parted and pulled back, with tiny kiss-curls below and a tall, plaited arrangement above. Her expression is languishing. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf , who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Trollope
FT 's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
21: 324
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
135
However, her writing brought her into a supportive network...
Intertextuality and Influence Annie Tinsley
AT argues in Dreams of the Future that poets condemned to neglect in their lifetimes may have a value for posterity. This, she says, would only reduplicate the present generation's experience in the future: our...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
22
She published...
Intertextuality and Influence Germaine de Staël
After completing this novel GS wrote, I'd like a really big [writing] table, it seems to me I've got the right to it now.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
19
Corinne was enormously influential for nineteenth-century women writers. The model...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Isabella Spence
EIS says that her early friendship with Jane and Anna Maria Porter was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents,
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
325-6
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Anna Maria Porter
which had been formed, no doubt, in Durham. In...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Smythies
In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving
Intertextuality and Influence Sappho
Elizabeth Moody engagingly converts Sappho into a contemporary in Sappho Burns her Books and Cultivates the Culinary Arts, 1798.
Jay, Peter, and Caroline Lewis. Sappho Through English Poetry. Anvil Press Poetry.
98
But many women poets accepted the notion of her rejected love for Phaon: Robinson
Occupation Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Textual Production Christina Rossetti
CR composed the desolate poem L.E.L., which pays elegiac tribute to a female predecessor.
Rossetti, Christina. The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Editor Crump, Rebecca W., Louisiana State University Press.
1: 153-5, 288
Textual Features Christina Rossetti
The first poem, in the vein of major precursors Felicia Hemans and L. E. L. , represents the head of the lyric tradition as irrepressibly sighing and yearning for death, albeit that death will be...
Friends, Associates Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Their mother was living in Paris at this time, and Rosina lived in London with her uncle Sir John Doyle (latterly without her sister, who joined their mother in Paris). She reputedly had an unusual...
Friends, Associates Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
But though she lived remote from London, she corresponded with writers such as L. E. L. and Jane Welsh Carlyle .
Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, http://U. of Toronto.
143
Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
53
, No. 3, pp. 210-36.
232-3
Her women friends stood by her during her husband's various persecutions.

Timeline

January 1833: The annual Heath's Book of Beauty began publication;...

Writing climate item

January 1833

The annual Heath's Book of Beauty began publication; the first number was edited by L. E. L.

Texts

L. E. L.,. A Birthday Tribute. Fisher, 1837.
Staël, Germaine de. Corinne; or, Italy. Translators Hill, Isabel and L. E. L., R. Bentley, 1833.
Staël, Germaine de. Corinne; or, Italy. Translators Hill, Isabel and L. E. L., A. L. Burt, 1857.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
L. E. L.,. Critical Writings by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Editor Sypher, Francis Jacques, Scholar’s Facsimilies and Reprints, 1996.
L. E. L.,. Duty and Inclination. H. Colburn, 1838.
L. E. L.,. Ethel Churchill. H. Colburn, 1837.
L. E. L.,. Ethel Churchill. Editor Sypher, Francis Jacques, Scholar’s Facsimiles and Reprints, 1992.
L. E. L.,. Flowers of Loveliness. Ackermann, 1838.
L. E. L.,. Francesca Carrara. R. Bentley, 1834.
L. E. L., and Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, editors. Heath’s Book of Beauty. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.
L. E. L.,. “Introduction”. The Fate of Adelaide, edited by Francis Jacques Sypher, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1990.
L. E. L.,. “Introduction”. Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon "L.E.L.", edited by Francis Jacques Sypher, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1990, pp. 9-22.
L. E. L.,. Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. Henry Colburn, 1842.
L. E. L.,. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings. Editors McGann, Jerome and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997.
Blanchard, Samuel Laman, and L. E. L. Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. H. Colburn, 1841.
L. E. L.,. Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Editor Sypher, Francis Jacques, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1990.
L. E. L.,. Romance and Reality. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
L. E. L.,. The Easter Gift. Fisher, 1832.
L. E. L.,. The Fate of Adelaide. J. Warren, 1821.
L. E. L.,. The Fate of Adelaide. Editor Sypher, Francis Jacques, Scholars’ Facsimilies and Reprints, 1990.
L. E. L.,. The Improvisatrice. Hurst, Robinson, 1824.
L. E. L.,. The Troubadour. Hurst, Robinson, 1825.
L. E. L.,. The Venetian Bracelet. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829.
L. E. L.,. The Vow of the Peacock. Saunders and Otley, 1835.