{"product_id":"l-e-l-9780099503590","title":"L.E.L.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the ''Female Byron''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials ''L.E.L.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident? Had she committed suicide, or even been murdered?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the ''female Byron''. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which this book unravels, excavating with it a whole lost literary culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE BRONTE MYTH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her biography of L.E.L., Lucasta Miller's stellar research blows two centuries of accumulated dust off a phenomenon worth unearthing... This book takes biography to a new level\u003c\/b\u003e. * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucasta Miller's fine literary detective work yields a riveting, tantalisingly ambiguous portrait of a poet whose confessional voice and savvy celebrity make her only more intriguing to modern readers.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWonderfully entertaining... Spellbinding.\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA terrific book... A compelling life of the victim of a misogynist celebrity culture, a rich mix of literary criticism and impeccable research, which reads like a novel\u003c\/b\u003e - you keep turning the pages to discover whatever will happen next to the unfortunate L.E.L.. * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompelling as a detective story, Miller’s revelatory life of Landon is a masterpiece of eloquent scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e... Miller's\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ereal \u003cb\u003egenius\u003c\/b\u003e lies in her forensic ability to disentangle reality from romance... \u003cb\u003esplendid\u003c\/b\u003e. * Literary Review *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832642683223,"sku":"9780099503590","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099503590.jpg?v=1710336281","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/l-e-l-9780099503590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}