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

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

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

BD$106.91

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

BD$106.91
Author: Julie Watt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Julie Watt
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 10/12/2010
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781845194208


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 233

About the Author
Julie Watt is the former head of arts ad media at Stevenson College-Edinburgh.

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