Letitia Elizabeth Landon [SEP] date of death
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Early life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, "née" Bishop. 
A precocious child, Landon learned to read as a toddler; an invalid neighbour would scatter letter tiles on the floor and reward young Letitia for reading, and, according to her father, "she used to
Hall and a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Miller's biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "L.E.L. The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Landon, the celebrated “female Byron”", was published by Knopf and Jonathan Cape in 2019: “Ms Miller ... analyzes with revelatory insight ...this infinitely rich literary biography” ("The Wall Street Journal )"
Personal life.
In 1992 Miller married the tenor Ian Bostridge. They have two children and live in London.
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