“Indeed, there is no such thing as a school in literature; each great writer is his own original.”
About Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838
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…