L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti.
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John Forster, to whom Landon was briefly engaged
Letitia Landon, 1837
George Maclean, Letitia's husband
Letitia Landon as The Minstrel of Chamouni, by Pickersgill, 1829-30
Engraving of Cape Coast Castle, featured in the January 1839 issue of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Landon, from the cover of William Jerdan's Autobiography, 1852. Vol. 3; portrait by Pickersgill![Painting by Henry James Richter, depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary (1816), executed between 1816 and 1832. A handwritten poem, The Love Letter, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, is on a wooden slide at the bottom of the painting.[45][46]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%22The_Love_Letter%22_painting_by_Henry_James_Richter.jpg/1280px-%22The_Love_Letter%22_painting_by_Henry_James_Richter.jpg)
Painting by Henry James Richter, depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary (1816), executed between 1816 and 1832. A handwritten poem, The Love Letter, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, is on a wooden slide at the bottom of the painting.[45][46]In their orbit 2
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About this person
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in the United States, where she was very popular. Edgar Allan Poe regarded her genius as self-evident.
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