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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Isabel Hill | Bentley
had already offered the translation job to three or four other writers. After Hill completed her work she learned that L. E. L
had rendered Corinne's odes into English. In the end L.E.L's translations... |
| Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | The work bears a dedication, dated at London on 10 April 1828, to Princess Augusta Sophia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 671 |
| Reception | Emma Roberts | At the same time the memoir seems concerned to defend ER
against any hint of being interested in deep investigations or profound reflections, which it implies would have been culpably unfeminine. It quotes a Calcutta... |
| Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as... |
| Textual Features | Mary Oxlie | The poem gives ten lines to humble self-deprecation, in iambic pentameter couplets: a metre which serves to separate this passage from the rest, since the remaining 42 lines, which praise Drummond
's descriptive powers, are... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Caroline Norton | The verse narrative is written in rhyming couplets, sometimes in very regular pentameter and at others in quite irregular metre that reflects, for instance, the anguish of the speaker's musings on memory and death. Stylistically... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Emma Roberts | ER
contributed to women's literary history with a memoir of her friend L. E. L.
for the latter's posthumous The Zenana, and Minor Poems, 1839. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
edited Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook at some point following LEL
's death in 1838. In this she voiced her own admiration of Elizabeth Fry
, as well as contributing much of the verse for the years 1843-45. Landow, George P., editor. Victorian Research Web. http://www.victorianweb.org/. Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle. 88 |
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