Robert Browning vs. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Robert Browning
1812 – 1889
Irish missionary who founded the Dohnavur Fellowship in India and liberated thousands of girl slaves through her work in the early 20th century. She was a pioneering advocate for women's rights and education.
"how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet"
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1802 – 1838
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. Her first major breakthrough came with The Improvisatrice and she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, influencing fellow English writers such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in the United States, where she was very popular.
"It may seem fanciful, but to me the violet is the very emblem of woman's love; it springs up in secret; it hides its perfume even when gathered ; how timidly it…"