L.E.L. - The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron'

Informationen zum Autor Lucasta Miller is a biographer and critic, whose articles have appeared in a wide number of publications, especially the Guardian . She is the author of two previous books on nineteenth-century literature, The Brontë Myth and L.E.L.: the Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron', and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at University College, London and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Klappentext A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand. Zusammenfassung A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.' What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident? Had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the 'female Byron'. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which this book unravels, excavating with it a whole lost literary culture. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BRONTE MYTH

Product details

• Authors: Lucasta Miller, Miller Lucasta
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780099503590
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950359-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history