The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
The brilliant nineteenth century poet's life and mysterious death prove stranger than fiction in this biography from the author of }The Bronte Myth{, excavating a bygone literary culture and revealing a toxic dynamic of the post-Byron, post-Romantics legacy
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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, as the inquest claimed?
