{"product_id":"2940169211849","title":"L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated \"Female Byron\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lost 19th-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered amp;mdash; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality amp;mdash; by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brontë Myth\u003c\/i\u003e (\"wonderfully entertaining...spellbinding\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e); \"ingenious\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"None among us dares to say \/ What none will choose to hear\"\u003c\/i\u003e (L.E.L., \"Lines of Life\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetitita Elizabeth Landon amp;mdash; pen name L.E.L. amp;mdash; dared to say it and made sure she was heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucasta Miller tells the full story and recreates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L. amp;mdash; its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104372867312,"sku":"2940169211849","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169211849_p0.jpg?v=1763675212","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169211849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}