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On June 7th 1838, Letitia Elizabeth Landon married George Maclean; on July 5th they sailed for Cape Coast; on August 16th they landed and one month later, Landon, at the age of thirty-six, was found dead, slumped against her bedroom door with an empty bottle of prussic acid in her hand. This is a full account of the literary career, life and death of the woman who achieved fame as the poetess L.E.L. Glennis Stephenson begins with an account of the rise of the "poetess" in the early 19th century, and then, drawing upon contemporary memoirs and reviews and upon many of Landon's own unpublished letters, moves on to her early life, and shows how Landon fit herself into this category of "poetess" by constructing the persona of L.E.L. The book concludes with a discussion of Landon's sudden and mysterious death, and how various readings and misreadings struggled to reconcile the dual persona of woman and poetess. The life and works of this fascinating figure illuminate the conflicts, both personal and artistic, for women writers in the 19th century.
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Glennis Stephenson lectures in English Studies at the University of Stirling.
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- PublisherManchester University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0719045444
- ISBN 13 9780719045448
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages244
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