Author
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks (1827). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“Berni is fond of violets. Hence in this does he not imitate / Miss L. E. L. here is another simile from the flower … Vide Miss L. E. L's / production beginning [horizontal line across] / I believe with "I do love violets" and various other passages in / her effusions I really think the lady might leave this' pretty / flower alone … As to this Mrs Hemans's school of poetry, say I, / who would fain veil the fountain of poetic / inspiration by their fog of words.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Berni is fond of violets. Hence in this does he not imitate / Miss L. E. L. here is another simile from the flower … Vide Miss L. E.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Miss Landon... and other flattered poetesses mourn over womans lot as something peculiar”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller explicitly criticizes Landon (L.E.L.) as a "flattered poetess," referring to her prolific output of sentimental poetry and novels that began appearing in 1820, though she names no specific work.