[1802] - Letitia Landon born

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–38) as portrayed by Daniel Maclise, c.1830–5

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Romantic Circles, ‘Life of Letitia Elizabeth Landon’,
  http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/lel/lelbio.htm
• Miami University, ‘Letitia Elizabeth Landon’,
  http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/bijou/youngcd/
• Katherine Montwieler, ‘Laughing at Love: L.E.L. and the Embellishment of Eros’, Romanticism on the Net, 29–30 (2003),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n29–30/007717ar.html
• Glennis Stephenson, ‘Letitia Landon and the Victorian Improvisatrice: The Construction of L.E.L’, Victorian Poetry, 30 (1992), 1–17,
  http://www.jstor.org/pss/40001981
• University of Pennsylvania, ‘Online Books by L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)’,
  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=L.%20E.%20L.%20%28Letitia%20Elizabeth%20Landon%29%2C%201802–1838
• Germaine Greer, Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poets (London, 1995)
• Glennis Stephenson, Letitia Landon: The Woman Behind L.E.L. (Manchester, 1995)
• Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow, eds, Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (Oxford, 1998)
• Richard Fantina, ‘“The Maiden Felt Hot Pain”: Agency and Passivity in the Work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon’, in From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: Essays in Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction, ed. Marilyn Brock (Jefferson, NC, 2009)