George Eliot vs. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
George Eliot
1819 – 1880
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, journalist and translator best known for realist novels such as Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond t…"
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…"
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