The improvisatrice
By: Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Series: Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834
Publisher: Woodstock Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Poole, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Description: L.E.L. - poet, novelist, playwright, reviewer - wrote busily and profitably, one of a generation of women writers active as the last phase of Romanticism ushered in the Victorian period. She wrote with enviable ease and professional polish, as the ballads and narrative poems in this volume amply demonstrate. In her thirties she made an unfortunate marriage, went to Africa with her husband, and mysteriously died there in the same year, whether by accident or suicide is not known.

The improvisatrice was published in 1824 and went rapidly through several editions. This facsimile is based on the fifth of 1825.
Notes: Previously published: The improvisatrice, and other poems / by L.E.L. 5th ed. London : Hurst, Robinson, 1825.
"A Woodstock facsimile"--Jacket.