LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
\lˈɛtɪʃəɹ ɪlˈɪzəbəθ lˈandən], \lˈɛtɪʃəɹ ɪlˈɪzəbəθ lˈandən], \l_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_ʃ_ə_ɹ ɪ_l_ˈɪ_z_ə_b_ə_θ l_ˈa_n_d_ə_n]\
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An English poet and novelist; born in Chelsea, London, Aug. 14, 1802; died at Cape Coast Castle, Africa, Oct. 15, 1838. She was a poet of genuine feeling and descriptive power, was at one time connected with the London Literary Gazette, and published under the pseudonym of "L. E. L".: "The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems" (1824); "The Golden Violet, etc"., all collected in 1841; and several novels. In June 1838, she married Mr. George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle, and a few months later died from an accidental overdose of prussic acid, which she had been in the habit of taking for the alleviation of spasms. The theory of suicide is now generally discredited.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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