L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Author
Lucasta Miller
Content
xii + 401 + [12 photo] pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2019
Publisher
New York: Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf
Publication notes
Alternate subtitle: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the "Female Byron."
Description
Part detective story and part biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who was ostracized from literary society for her lengthy affair with editor William Jerdan and wrote works that link the Romantics and the Victorians and point toward modernism.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography Literature and Literary Criticism
ISBN
9780375412783 (cloth); 9780525655350 (ebook)
Citation
Miller, Lucasta. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron." New York: Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed July 17, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1015.
