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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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
. |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | Some of the poems in Records of Woman have recently been embraced by certain scholars (including Isobel Armstrong
in Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, who discusses them alongside poems by L. E. L. |
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... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Maria Jane Jewsbury
had already begun the idealisation of FH
in 1830 with her portrait of Egeria in The History of a Nonchalant: a muse, a grace, a variable child, a dependent woman—the Italy... |
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