“There is no tie
Like that last holiest link of love, which binds
The lonely child to its more lonely parent.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(5th July 1823) A Tale Founded on Fact
12th July 1823) Glencoe see The Vow of the Peacock (1835
(19th July 1823) Execution of Crescentius see The Improvisatrice (1824) Crescentius
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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