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

by Julie Watt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194209
• ISBN13: 9781845194208
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.7"