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L.E.L.: The Life and Murder of Letitia E. Landon: ‘a flower of loveliness’, by Michael Gorman. London: Olympia Publishers, 2008, 292 pp. ISBN 978-1-905513-70-3. £8.99

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Terry Barringer
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 109 , 2009 , pp. 60 - 62
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Copyright © International African Institute 2009

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1 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838), by Glennis Byron http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15978 Maclean, George (1801-1847), by John Flint http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article37719

2 See http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/nl8/lawf01_.htm

3 e.g. L.E.L.'s new acquaintances, the Halls “were strong believers in temperance and were keen to carry on the work of Father Theobald Matthew (1790-1856), the Irish priest who became the Apostle of Temperance” (p. 194). She disposes of most of the furniture of her deceased grandmother but “a pair of lovely Andre Boulle (1642-1732) tables I kept” (p.196).

4 He means of course the Book of Judges but there are plenty of other proofs that this volume was printed without the attentions of a proofreader.