6 Quotes & Sayings By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (pen name: "T. L. Lappin") was born on 23 March 1847 at Highgate, near Bath, Somerset, England. At the age of five She was sent to a school called The Ladies' Seminary at Tiverton, Devon Read more

She remained there for about four years and then returned to her father's house at Highgate for a short time until she was sixteen years of age. At the end of this time she went to London and studied art at Heatherley's School of Art and Design, South Kensington. Miss Letitia continued her studies for several years and became a prize-winner in water-colour and pastel painting and won several medals in the Royal Academy Competition.

Following this, she returned to Highgate and lived there until her marriage on 23 August 1870 to Admiral Sir Charles Henry Foster-Sutton, KCB, CIE, who became a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy. In 1874 Miss Landon went with her husband as his secretary on a diplomatic mission to Spain where they resided for six months. With his promotion from captain to admiral came a further promotion from secretary to First Secretary.

They soon left Spain but spent some time in Glasgow before going through Paris and Switzerland to Italy where they travelled for some time through northern Italy and arrived on 9 July 1876 at Naples where they remained for nearly two years. After leaving Italy they went on a tour through France, Belgium and Germany before going back to their home in London where they remained until their deaths on 19 November 1883 at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Miss Letitia died on 3 October 1903 at Windsor Castle after which there was no further record of her whereabouts until 1932 when she turned up as an old lady living with two sisters of hers at Brooklands Hall near Brooklands Museum near Woking Surrey where she spent her last years out-of-doors gardening and writing stories for children under the pen name "T.L.

Lappin."

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Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. Letitia Elizabeth Landon