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 ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Camilla Crosland | Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington |
Literary responses | Eliza Cook | A short and patronising notice of the volume in the Athenæum characterized EC
as a sort of L. E. L.
for the working classes writing for the not very select readers of a provincial newspaper... |
Literary responses | Eliza Cook | An 1848 preface to a US edition of her poems ranked EC
's popularity almost as high as that of Felicia Hemans
or Caroline Norton
. It characterises her work in terms of emotion and... |
Publishing | Mary Maria Colling | The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Charlotte Bury | The title-page quotes some lines from Robert Burton
's Anatomy of Melancholy which begin, When I go musing all alone. Bury, Lady Charlotte. "Alla Giornata"; or, To the Day. Saunders and Otley. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Byron
and Wordsworth
were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey
's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford |
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