Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple fo… - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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About Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. She was one of the richest sources of epigrams in the early nineteenth century and one reviewer compared her to Rochefoucauld. Sometimes she adopts an adversarial role, giving contradictory viewpoints. Some of her thoughts recur, either developed or refined, but over time she also threw out differing opinions on some subjects; changeability, she argues, is one of our principal traits and, as she has one character remark, truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.

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Pen Names: L.E.L. • Iole

Native Name: Letitia Landon

Alternative Names: L. E. L. • Letitia Maclean • Letitia Elizabeth Maclean • Landon

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For love is like the breathing wind,
That everywhere may entrance find.

Another year, another year,—
Alas! and must it be
That Time's most dark and weary wheel
Must turn again for me?

I like to be candid in my admissions — it is so very disarming ; you forestall the objection which you admit — at least your adversary has scarcely the heart to push to its utmost the advantage which you so meekly confess.

Fame to a woman is indeed but a royal mourning in purple for happiness. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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