Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born onAugust 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, ne 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 bring home many rewards. At the age of five, Landon began attending Mrs Rowdens school atHans Place, which counted among its alumnae Mary Russell Mitford and Lady Caroline Lamb. The family moved to the country in 1809, so that John Landon could carry out a model farm project, and Landon was educated at home by her cousin Elizabeth from that point on. Elizabeth, though older, soon found her knowledge and abilities outstripped by those of her pupil When I asked Letitia any question relating either to history, geography, grammar Plutarchs Lives, or to any book we had been reading, I was pretty certain her answers would be perfectly correct still, not exactly recollecting, and

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