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 |
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Anthologization | Barbara Hofland | BH
seems to have remained saleable for a long time, since The Gift of Friendship . . . with contributions by . . . Mrs. Hofland appeared as late as 1877. Others included were Mary Howitt |
Dedications | Emma Roberts | This work she dedicated to L. E. L.
, as a faint tribute to her genius. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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, 1967. 154 |
Education | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
was an avid reader within limits: her selection of material was mostly dictated by her religious interests. After receiving a copy of a book about literary women she commented, The sad sketch of L. E. L. |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Forster | In 1834 JF
became engaged to the popular poet L.E.L
. Their nuptials were soon called off by L.E.L when rumours that she had had an affair with William Jerdan
resurfaced. Forster pressed for a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Eliza Bray | Ann Arrow Kempe
was described by her daughter as shy and tender, with a love of music. L. E. L.
remembered her as a charming, kind woman who admired poetry and demonstrated a sincere affection... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Fane | VF
's love life was a frequent subject of London gossip. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was regarded, in her own time, as a late-Victorian Letitia Landon
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB
did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L.
, John Murray
, Owen Rees
, and Anna Maria Hall |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | In London after her father's death, Jane Webb was a frequent visitor to the family of |
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 | 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, 1817. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Anna Maria Porter |
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, 1887. 143 Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, No. 3, pp. 210 - 36. 232-3 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Timeline
January 1833
The annual Heath's Book of Beauty began publication; the first number was edited by L. E. L.