CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE
GENIUS AND WRITINGS
OF
L. E. L.
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HER WORKS,
AND FROM
PERSONAL RECOLLECTION;
BY
S. S.
AUTHOR OF "THE HEBREW CONVERTS,"
&c.
"In Her shone Genius, in its high revealing!
In Her too smiled a Woman's gentler feeling!"
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
MDCCCXLI.
London:
Printed by James and Luke J. Hansard, near Lincoln's Inn Fields.
It is perhaps necessary to state, that the outline and much of the First Part of the following Analysis of L. E. L.'s Works were written, some time since, in preparation for a volume, of which the completed Essays were intended to form a portion.
Little did the Writer then anticipate that this tribute of sincere admiration would be offered to the memory of the dead. As a simple wild-flower garland from her own England, from one who knew and loved her well, the hand of friendship would place it on the lonely and far-off grave of the gifted and lamented L. E. L.