[lit-ideas] Re: "The Political Works of Miss Landon"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 20:27:47 EDT
MISS LANDON
"THE POLITICAL WORKS OF MISS LANDON"
Philadelphia. Carey & Hart, Chesnut Street. 1841. Octavo. 348 pp. Bound in
original brown leather. Internally clean with general wear to partially
detached front cover and missing leather to spine.
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This is actually an abridged edition. My grandmother owns
"The Compleat Political Works of Miss Letitia Landon"
in six volumes:
Volume 1. Introduction by the Editor.
Letitia Landon's politics -- why they matter today.
JUVENILIA. "Why I'm not a virgin"
Marriage --
"Against marriage"
Woman's suffrage.
"Why a woman's vote is important"
Volume 2:
"My Sexual Married Life"
Politics of Victorian Asexualism -- Views from a Closet Lesbian.
Illustrations -- from "Sketches" of Letitia
Volume 3:
Marxism
"My Trip to Moscow -- and what I saw There"
"The Gold Coast"
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Volume 4:
Gold -- The Currency -- and Keynes.
"Monetary Reform on the Gold Coast"
"Pamphlet on how to marry a Gold Coast person"
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Volume 5:
On Widowhood:
"Why a widow is more important than a widower"
"The death of my husband -- the true story behind the political scandal"
Volume 6:
Miss Letitia Landon's politics in retrospective.
Her influence on Michelle Obama.
JLS
In a message dated 4/3/2009 7:33:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=120308617798&category=29223&_trksid=p3907.m263&_trkparms=a
lgo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUA%252BIA%252BUCI%26otn%3D15%26po%
3DLVI%26ps%3D54
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?
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