L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the Female Byron by Miller, Lucasta

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the Female Byron (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780593311158)

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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the Female Byron by Miller, Lucasta

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

$20.00
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the Female Byron by Miller, Lucasta

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

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography: the fascinating, rediscovered story of a writer who changed English poetry and explored the dark side of sexuality through a woman's voice.

On October 15, 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 as L.E.L. What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the "female Byron," admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Bront s, and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with scandalous secrets, and her death prompted a cover-up that is only now unravelling. Lucasta Miller, acclaimed author of The Bront Myth, meticulously pieces together L.E.L.'s lost career, revealing her as a brilliant woman who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the Romantics and the Victorians. A triumph of original research and riveting storytelling, L.E.L. restores a fascinating figure to her place in history.

Author: Lucasta Miller
ISBN-10: 0593311159
ISBN-13: 9780593311158
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2020
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
By Lucasta Miller
By Lucasta Miller
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LUCASTA MILLER is a British literary critic who has worked for The Independent and The Guardian, and contributed to The Economist, The Times (London), The New Statesman, and the BBC. She was the founding editorial director of Notting Hill Editions and has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband, the tenor Ian Bostridge, and their two children.

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