Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838); variation of the original painting by Daniel Maclise
John Forster, to whom Landon was briefly engaged
Painting by Henry James Richter, depicting a scene from Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary (1816), executed between 1816 and 1832. A handwritten poem, The Love Letter, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, is on a wooden slide at the bottom of the painting.
Victorian literature
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Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this era reflects the major transformations in most aspects of English life, from scientific, economic, and technological advances to changes in class structures and the role of religion in society. The number of new novels published each year increased from 100 at the start of the period to 1000 by the end of it. Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling.
'Carlyle and Tennyson talked and smoked together.' by J. R. Skelton, 1920
The Brontë sisters wrote fiction rather different from that common at the time.
Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate
Charles Darwin's work On the Origin of Species affected society, throughout the Victoria era, and still does today.