Landon

Landon, LETITIA ELIZABETH, was born in Chelsea, August 14, 1802. At an early age she contributed short poems to the Literary Gazette. Between the years 1824 and 1838 she published several volumes of poems, and three novels, besides contributing to 'Annals,' the New Monthly Magazine, and the Literary Gazette. In 1838 she married Mr Maclean, the governor of Cape Coast Castle, and went out there with her husband at once. Two months after her arrival she died suddenly from having taken an overdose of prussic acid, which she had been in the habit of using as a remedy for spasmodic affections to which she was subject. Her poems and novels, written under the initials 'L. E. L.,' show genius, and were in their day exceedingly popular. See Life and Literary Remains, by Laman Blanchard (1841).