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portada Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLean
Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLeanPoisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLeanPoisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLean
Type
Physical Book
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Publisher
Year
2010
Language
English
Pages
282
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.1 x 15.5 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.54 kg.
ISBN13
9781845194208
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Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLean

Julie Watt (Author) · Liverpool University Press · Hardcover

Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLean - Watt, Julie

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Synopsis "Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLean"

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 society, which unwittingly superimposed the plots of L.E.L.'s fictions upon the circumstances of her death. Despite the fact that Maclean cleared 200 miles of Western African coast of British slave trading, made peace with the warlike Asante, instituted a judicial system still in use in many African democracies, and encouraged successful and fair trading, the scandal unjustly ruined his career. According to the inquest L.E.L.''s death was caused by her improper use of a prescribed medicine, but the rumour mongers discounted the difficult circumstances of life on the Gold Coast in the mid 1800s, and hinted that "Mrs Maclean, only recently married, owed her death to the revengeful passions of the natives, who poisoned the wife in order to have vengeance on the husband". Among those who enjoyed her work or recognised her influence were Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and her brother, Dante Gabriel. It might be said that, to reflect fully the aesthetics of early nineteenth-century poetry, one has to consider, together, the works of William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

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