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LETITIA ELIZABETH (MRS. MACLEAN), an English poet and novelist; born in Chelsea, London, Aug. 14, 1802. She was a poet of genuine feeling and descriptive power, and published under the pseudonym of "L. E.

L.": "The Improvisatrice, and Other Poems" (1824); "The Golden Violet," etc. (1841); and several novels. In June, 1838, she married Mr. George Maclean, governor of Cape Coast Castle She died in Cape Coast Castle, Africa, Oct. 15, 1838.

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