People

Lafayette C. Baker is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government. […]

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1799–1853

Lancelot Dent was a British merchant in Canton and a leading partner in Dent & Company, one of the largest firms involved in the China trade. […]

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1732 BCE–1666 BCE

Leah was the first wife of Jacob and mother of several sons identified with tribes of Israel. Her rivalry with Rachel and position within Jacob’s household […]

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Leland Stanford is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life and family, marriage and personal loyalty. These works […]

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1543–1634

Lettice Knollys was an English noblewoman closely connected to the court of Elizabeth I. Her secret marriage to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, angered the queen, […]

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1567 BCE–1430 BCE

Levi was a son of Jacob and the traditional ancestor of the tribe of Levi. The story of violence at Shechem is attached to Levi and […]

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314–393

Libanius was a fourth-century Greek rhetorician and teacher based mainly at Antioch. His speeches and letters illuminate education, urban politics, imperial administration and religious change in […]

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1338–1368

Lionel of Antwerp was a son of Edward III of England and Duke of Clarence. His descendants’ claim to the throne later became important in the […]

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1821–1861

Lola Montez, born Eliza Gilbert, was an Irish dancer and adventurer who fashioned herself as a Spanish performer. Her influence over King Ludwig I of Bavaria […]

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1751–1793

Lord George Gordon was a British politician and leader of the Protestant Association. In 1780 he presented a petition against limited relief granted to Catholics, and […]

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