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LETITIA See also: English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L
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E
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L. than as See also: Miss Landon or Mrs Maclean, was descended from an old See also: Hereford-See also: shire See also: family, and was See also: born at See also: Chelsea on the 14th of See also: August 1802
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She went to a school in Chelsea where Miss Mitford also received her See also: education
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Her See also: father, an army See also: agent, amassed a large See also: property, which he lost by See also: speculation shortly before his See also: death
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About 1815 the Landons made the acquaintance of See also: William
See also: Jerdan, and Letitia began her contributions to the See also: Literary See also: Gazette and to various See also: Christmas annuals
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She also published some volumes of verse, which soon won for her a wide literary fame
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The gentle melancholy and romantic sentiment her writings embodied suited the taste of the See also: period, and would
in any See also: case have secured her the sympathy and approval of a I these See also: great See also: works it has some points of greatness in See also: common. wide class of readers
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She displays richness of fancy and aptness The superhuman See also: isolation of agony and endurance which en-of language, but her See also: work suffered from hasty production, and circles and exalts the See also: hero is in each case expressed with equally has not stood the test of See also: time
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The large sums she earned by her appropriate magnificence of effect
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The See also: style of Count Julian, literary labours were expended on the support of her family. if somewhat deficient in dramatic ease and the fluency of natural An engagement to See also: John
See also: Forster, it is said, was broken off through See also: dialogue, has such might and purity and majesty of speech as the intervention of scandalmongers
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In See also: June 1838 she married elsewhere we find only in See also: Milton so long and so steadily sustained
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See also: George Maclean, governor of the Gold See also: Coast, but, she only sur- In May 1811 See also: Landor had suddenly married Miss Julia Thuillier, vived her See also: marriage, which proved to be very unhappy, by a few with whose looks he had fallen in love at first sight in a See also: ball-See also: room months
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She died on the 15th of See also: October 1838 at Cape Coast from at See also: Bath; and in June they settled for a while at Llanthony Abbey an overdose of prussic acid, which, it is supposed, was taken in See also: Monmouthshire, from whence he was worried in three years'
accidentally. time by the combined vexation of neighbours and tenants,
For some time L
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E
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L. was joint editor of the Literary Gazette. lawyers and lords-See also: lieutenant; not before much toil and See also: money Her first See also: volume of See also: poetry appeared in 182o under the title The had been nobly wasted on attempts to improve the sterility of
See also: Fate of Adelaide, and was followed by other collectionseof verses the See also: land, to relieve the wretchedness and raise the condition of with similar titles
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She also wrote several novels, of which the best
is Ethel See also: Churchill (1837)
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Various See also: editions of her Poetical Works I the peasantry
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He See also: left See also: England for See also: France at first, but after
have been published since her death, one in 188o with an intro- a brief residence at See also: Tours took up his abode for three years at fuctory memoir by W
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B
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See also: Scott
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