| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-377) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838.
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L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838. (OCoLC)fst00110530
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Poets, English. (OCoLC)fst01067870
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Title |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon |
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LEL |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, Lucasta, author. L. E. L. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 9780525655350 (DLC) 2018042545 |
| ISBN |
9780375412783 (hardcover) |
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0375412786 (hardcover) |
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