Keeping one eye on my sabbatical project, which is currently not well defined but has something to do with writers and artists of the nineteenth century who were famous then and are now forgotten, I looked at an e bay reference and wondered who Miss Landon was and what her politics were. It turns out that the "political" works of Miss Landon are, in fact, no more than a typo. What was meant are the "poetical" works of Miss Landon.
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Wikipedia tells me enough to make me think I'll give her a try-- rumors of affairs cause her to reject one suitor but then marry George Maclean, governor of the Gold Coast...found dead with a bottle of prussic acid in her hand... Germaine Greer makes the case for re- visiting her work. Has anyone here read any of her verse?
David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
