L.E.L.
Subtitle: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Publisher: Knopf
Published: Mar 05, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780375412783
Description: Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.
Notes: Source title: L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"