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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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... |
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 | 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... |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Late in life EOB
ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland |
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 |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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. |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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. |
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... |
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