The Indian Orphan: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14th August 1802 in Chelsea, London. A precocious child she had her first poem published is 1820 using the single `L' as her marker. The following year her first volume appeared and sold well. She published a further two poems that same year with just the initials `L.E.L.” It provided the basis for much intrigue.

She became the chief reviewer of the Gazette and published her second collection, The Improvisatrice, in 1824.

By 1826, rumours began to circula...