In Laman Blanchard's eulogy she is remembered as having held a very high sense of the duty which woman owes to herself—the nicest possible perception of all the delicacies that compose the female character.
Hill, Benson Earle. “Memoir of the Late Isabel Hill”. The Monthly Magazine, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Feb. 1842.
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Friends, Associates
Isabel Hill
Another friend, the actress Helen Faucit, was quick to lend Isabel and her brother money when they were in need. (Isabel succeeded in repaying it out of literary earnings not long before her death.)...
The volume firmly established her trademark theme of the doomed romantic female poet, and this persona was strongly identified with LEL herself. Her Victorian biographer Laman Blanchard claimed that LEL and Sappho were voted one...
Literary responses
Isabel Hill
In his eulogy of IHLaman Blanchard observes that she shrank from publicity: To publish her thoughts seemed to her, in some measure, a violence done to the principle which her clear mind recognized as...
Reception
L. E. L.
Laman Blanchard published his Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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Texts
Blanchard, Samuel Laman, and L. E. L. Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. H. Colburn, 1841, 2 vols.