Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts)

The work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon’s life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as “cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense.”

In addition to a broad selection of Landon’s poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.

Title - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts)

Edition -

Author - L.E.L.

ISBN 13 - 9781551111353

Imprint - Broadview Press Ltd

Publisher - Broadview Press Ltd

Date Published - 30/10/1997

Prize -

No. of pages - 509

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 140 x 216 x 25mm

Weight - 560 g

Languages - English