L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered—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—by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining . . . spellbinding"—New York Times Book Review; "ingenious"—The New Yorker).

"None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"—L.E.L., "Lines of Life"
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