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• Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de (1790–1869), French poet, statesman, and orator.
• Lamb, Charles (1775–1834), essayist.
• Lamb, William (1779–1848), 2nd Viscount Melbourne, prime minister.
• Lamennais, Félicité Robert de (1782–1854), French Catholic priest, social and religious writer, and reformer.
• Lampson, Frederick Locker-, see Locker, Frederick.
• Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (afterwards Maclean, 1802–38), poet and writer, better known by her initials L.E.L.
• Landor, Elizabeth Sophia (1815–89), eldest dau. of Charles Savage Landor and his wife, Catharine (née Wilson). Corresponded with RB regarding the welfare of her uncle, Walter Savage Landor. In AB-4, AB-5.
• Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864), poet and author. In AB-2, AB-4, AB-5. See biographical sketch.
• Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802–73), animal painter.
• Langley, Henry G. (b. 1819), American publisher.
• Latilla, Eugenio Honorius (1808–61), Anglo-Italian artist.
• Latimer, Mary Elizabeth (née Wormeley, 1822–1904), writer.
• Law, Edward (1822-85), bookseller and publisher, acted as British agent for Francis & Co., New York. In AB-3, AB-4.
• Layard, Austen Henry (1817–94), archaelogist, politician, and diplomat. In AB-5.
• Le Vert, Octavia (née Walton, 1811–77), American socialite and writer.
• Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Auguste (1804–74), French politician.
• Leigh, William Henry (1824-1905), 2nd Baron Leigh, eldest son of Chandos Leigh (1791-1850).
• Leighton, Frederic (1830–96), Baron Leighton, painter. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5, AB-6, AB-7.
• Lena, Annunziata (b. 1828), EBB’s lady’s maid (1857–61).
• Leopold I (1790–1865), King of the Belgians.
• Leopold II (1797–1870), Grand Duke of Tuscany (1824–59).
• Leppard, Jane Street (née Hayman, d. 1880, aged 56), widow of James Silverthorne, RB’s cousin. In AB-3, AB-4, AB-5, AB-6.
• Lever, Charles (1837–63), son of Charles James Lever.
• Lever, Charles James (1806–72), novelist.
• Lewes, George Henry (1817–78), writer. In AB-4, AB-5, AB-6.