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See also:LANDON, LETITIA See also:ELIZABETH (18o2-1838) , See also:English poet and novelist, better known by her See also:initials L. E. L. than as See also:Miss Landon or Mrs Maclean, was descended from an old See also:Hereford-See also:shire See also:family, and was See also:born at See also:Chelsea on the 14th of See also:August 1802. She went to a school in Chelsea where Miss See also:Mitford also received her See also:education. Her See also:father, an See also:army See also:agent, amassed a large See also:property, which he lost by See also:speculation shortly before his See also:death. About 1815 the Landons made the acquaintance of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Jerdan, and Letitia began her contributions to the See also:Literary See also:Gazette and to various See also:Christmas annuals. She also published some volumes of See also:verse, which soon won for her a wide literary fame. The See also:gentle See also:melancholy and romantic sentiment her writings embodied suited the See also:taste of the See also:period, and would
in any See also:case have secured her the sympathy and approval of a I these See also:great See also:works it has some points of greatness in See also:common. wide class of readers. She displays richness of See also:fancy and aptness The superhuman See also:isolation of agony and endurance which en-of See also:language, but her See also:work suffered from hasty See also:production, and circles and exalts the See also:hero is in each case expressed with equally has not stood the test of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The large sums she earned by her appropriate magnificence of effect. The See also:style of See also:Count See also:Julian, literary labours were expended on the support of her family. if somewhat deficient in dramatic ease and the fluency of natural An engagement to See also:John See also:Forster, it is said, was broken off through See also:dialogue, has such might and purity and See also:majesty of speech as the intervention of scandalmongers. In See also:June 1838 she married elsewhere we find only in See also:Milton so See also:long and so steadily sustained. See also:George Maclean, See also:governor of the See also:Gold See also:Coast, but, she only sur- In May 1811 See also:Landor had suddenly married Miss Julia Thuillier, vived her See also:marriage, which proved to be very unhappy, by a few with whose looks he had fallen in love at first sight in a See also:ball-See also:room months. She died on the 15th of See also:October 1838 at Cape Coast from at See also:Bath; and in June they settled for a while at Llanthony See also:Abbey an overdose of prussic See also:acid, which, it is supposed, was taken in See also:Monmouthshire, from whence he was worried in three years'
accidentally. time by the combined vexation of neighbours and tenants,
For some time L. E. L. was See also:joint editor of the Literary Gazette. lawyers and lords-See also:lieutenant; not before much toil and See also:money Her first See also:volume of See also:poetry appeared in 182o under the See also:title The had been nobly wasted on attempts to improve the sterility of
See also:Fate of See also:Adelaide, and was followed by other collectionseof verses the See also:land, to relieve the wretchedness and raise the See also:condition of with similar titles. She also wrote several novels, of which the best
is Ethel See also:Churchill (1837). Various See also:editions of her Poetical Works I the peasantry. He See also:left See also:England for See also:France at first, but after
have been published since her death, one in 188o with an intro- a brief See also:residence at See also:Tours took up his See also:abode for three years at fuctory memoir by W. B. See also:Scott.
End of Article: LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (18o2-1838)
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