L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron" /

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...

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