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 February 5, 2023. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1015.
- Updated
- 12-23-2022
Publication Information
Publisher's WebsiteReviews
Booklist Online, Feb. 15, 2019Kirkus Reviews, Nov. 12, 2018
New York Times Book Review, June 16, 2019, 15
Publishers Weekly, Nov. 12, 2018