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Poisoned Lives
Julie Watt
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Description for Poisoned Lives
Hardcover. A double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron', and her husband George Maclean, British administrator on the Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. Num Pages: 282 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 566.
This is a double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron', and her husband George Maclean, British administrator on the Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. L.E.L.'s reading public adored her writing and poetry and made her the best-selling female author of her time. As an early media celebrity her life was the subject of society gossip, so her sudden death in Africa shocked the nation (a 'melancholy catastrophe' ran one headline) and led to rumours of suicide or murder. Her husband's name was henceforth blackened by London ... Read more
This is a double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron', and her husband George Maclean, British administrator on the Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. L.E.L.'s reading public adored her writing and poetry and made her the best-selling female author of her time. As an early media celebrity her life was the subject of society gossip, so her sudden death in Africa shocked the nation (a 'melancholy catastrophe' ran one headline) and led to rumours of suicide or murder. Her husband's name was henceforth blackened by London ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194208
SKU
V9781845194208
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for Poisoned Lives
"It is not only the most important publication on L.E.L. since Cynthia Lawford's news, but also a tour de force on the cultural turmoils of Great Britain...A storehouse of valuable research and superbly coordinated information, Poisoned Lives is also a lively, literate, engaging story, rendered with the craft and flair of an artful novelist." - Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University, ... Read more