Letitia Elizabeth Landon, often publishing as L.E.L., wrote poetry, fiction and literary sketches about romance, celebrity, art and the tension between public image and private feeling. The Improvisatrice and The Troubadour combine narrative poems with ornate scenes of artistic and emotional performance, while her novel Ethel Churchill turns to society, reputation and women's limited choices. Landon's verse frequently uses historical or exotic settings while returning to disappointed love, ambition and the construction of feminine identity. Her style is lyrical, theatrical and self-aware about the marketplace for literary emotion. Her work fits Romantic-era poetry, Victorian precursor writing, women's literature and literary celebrity studies. Read more Less
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