Letitia Elizabeth Landon, born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, and dead on 15 October 1838 at Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast, was one of the most celebrated, industrious, and misunderstood writers of the British Romantic period. Known to her immense contemporary readership by the initials “L.E.L.,” she became a literary phenomenon while still very young: a poet whose verses appeared week after week in maga…
“The time which passes pleasantly passes lightly; days are remembered by their cares more than by their content.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
In the quiet Connecticut countryside of Pomfret, on April 10, 1835, a child was born who would become one of the most influential literary figures of the late nineteenth century, though her name today is less remembered than the glittering circle of writers and artists she championed. Ellen Louise Chandler, who would later be known to the literary world as Louise Chandler Moulton, emerged from circumstances that seem…
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
