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LANDON, LETITIA ELIZABETH (1802-1838).—­Poetess, dau. of an army agent, was b. in London.  She was a prolific and, in her day, remarkably popular writer, but she wrote far too easily and far too much for permanent fame.  Many of her poems appeared in the Literary Gazette, and similar publications, but she pub. separately The Fate of Adelaide (1821), The Improvisatrice (1824), The Troubadour (1825), The Venetian Bracelet (1829), etc.  She also wrote a few novels, of which Ethel Churchill was the best, and a tragedy Castruccio Castracani (1837).  She m. a Mr. Maclean, Governor of one of the West African Colonies, where, shortly after her arrival, she was found dead from the effects of an overdose of poison, which it was supposed she had taken as a relief from spasms to which she was subject.  She was best known by her initials, L.E.L., under which she was accustomed to write.

LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864).—­Poet and miscellaneous author, s. of a physician, was b. at Ipsley Court, Warwick, the property of his mother, and ed. at Rugby and Oxf., where he earned the nickname of “the mad Jacobin,” and whence he was rusticated.  His whole long life thereafter was a series of quarrels, extravagances, and escapades of various kinds, the result of his violent prejudices, love of paradox, and ungovernable temper.  He quarrelled with his f., his wife, most of his relations, and nearly all his friends, ran through a large fortune, and ended his days in Italy supported by a pension granted by his brothers.  Yet he was not devoid of strong affections and generosity.  His earliest publication was Poems (1795); Gebir (1798), an epic, had little success, but won for him the friendship of Southey.  In 1808 he went to Spain to take part in the war against Napoleon, and saw some service.  His first work to attract attention was his powerful tragedy of Don Julian (1811).  About the same time he m. Miss Julia Thuillier—­mainly, as would appear, on account of her “wonderful golden hair”—­and purchased the estate of Llantony Abbey, Monmouthshire, whence, after various quarrels with the local authorities, he went to France.  After a residence of a year there, he went in 1815 to Italy, where he lived until 1818 at Como, which, having insulted the authorities in a Latin poem, he had to leave.  At Florence, which was his residence for some years, he commenced his famous Imaginary Conversations, of which the first two vols. appeared 1824, the third 1828, fourth and fifth 1829.  Other works were The Examination of W. Shakespeare touching Deer-stealing (1834), Pericles and Aspasia (1836), Pentameron