Eliza Lynn Linton

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Standard Name: Linton, Eliza Lynn
Birth Name: Elizabeth Lynn
Married Name: Elizabeth Linton
Indexed Name: Mrs Lynn Linton
Indexed Name: E. Lynn Linton
ELL was a Victorian novelist and memoirist whose historical importance rests largely on her pioneering role as a professional journalist who blazed a trail for her sex. She both held and promoted radical views early in life. Nevertheless, as is well known, many of her 200 periodical contributions are antifeminist essays which celebrate traditional women in traditional roles, and ridicule attempts at new departures for women as either a fad or a sham.

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Louisa May Alcott
In a preface to the volume Alcott declares that her heroine, Polly, is not intended as a perfect model, but as a possible improvement upon [Eliza Lynn Linton 's] Girl of the Period, who...
Friends, Associates Mrs Alexander
In London, Annie French joined a literary circle which included Anna Maria Hall , Eliza Lynn Linton , and W. H. Wills , co-editor of Household Words.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Linton introduced her to author Joshua Davidson
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Alexander
MA 's circle of literary friends in London were influential in the publication of Billeted in Boulogne. Anna Maria Hall , her countrywoman, introduced MA to W. H. Wills , the editor of Household...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
Eliza Lynn Linton , in an article that was in general highly complimentary, defended RB 's characterisation of Lenore: She is irritating and faulty, but not corrupt. Her temper and her taste are both equally...
Textual Features Rhoda Broughton
The eponymous Nancy, growing up haphazardly with a generally odious father,
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
80
, pp. 196-09.
200
is another of RB 's artless heroines. In the words of Eliza Lynn Linton : She is beautifully pure, if more thoughtless than...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
RB was convinced that Nancy would be a failure (and threatened in that case to stop writing), as she told Richard Bentley in a letter bemoaning a negative review in Pall Mall.
Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable.
106
It...
Textual Production Rhoda Broughton
RB followed this with Joan, A Tale, 1876, which prompted a writ from Gilbey 's for alleged libel on their sherry and a consequent temporary cessation of the novel's sale. Eliza Lynn Linton described...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
The Athenæum, describing Belinda as RB 's worst novel, noted a similarity of her central couple to Dorothea and Casaubon in George Eliot 's Middlemarch. It deemed Eliot's characterisation decidedly superior, maintaning that...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
An article by Eliza Lynn Linton written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB 's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else,
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
80
, pp. 196-09.
203
but that without...
Intertextuality and Influence Rhoda Broughton
The central characters, critical Paul Le Mesurier and spoiled, outspoken Lenore Herrick, fall in love early on, but the novel's later volumes depict the collapse of their relationship brought about by Lenore's pride and Paul's...
Publishing Mona Caird
MC replied in the pages of the Nineteenth Century, in A Defence of the So-Called Wild Woman, to Eliza Lynn Linton 's attack on such women in the same journal, begun the previous year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
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Textual Features Lydia Maria Child
Set in ancient Athens, the novel images many of the political concerns of nineteenth-century Boston. It depicts Pericles (whom Eliza Lynn Linton was to idealise a dozen years later in Amymone: A Romance...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Hume Clapperton
Unlike many of her feminist contemporaries who refused association with author Eliza Lynn Linton on any matter, JHC approvingly cites Linton's Universal Review article The Philosophy of Marriage, September 1888, which suggested that divorce...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
This is a social progressivist argument, trading in chauvinistic notions of British cultural and racial superiority, and strongly dependent on the notion of inherited proclivities as well as faith in social systems as shapers of...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
FPC continued to promote women's writing and women's causes in tandem, in such places as her writings in 1869 and 1870 on Dinah Craik 's A Brave Lady, a fictional illustration of the need...

Timeline

6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...

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6 July 1839

In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...

1842: A bill to legalize marriage between a man...

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1842

A bill to legalize marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister was introduced in the House of Commons . It did not pass.

2 May 1857: A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened...

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2 May 1857

A grand dome designed by Panizzi was opened in what had been the central courtyard of the British Museum .

1876: John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and...

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1876

John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and Windus , ending Mary Elizabeth Braddon 's association with the monthly.

Late 1888: Harry Quilter published Is Marriage a Failure?,...

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Late 1888

Harry Quilter published Is Marriage a Failure?, a collection of contributions to the debate aroused by Mona Caird 's critique of marriage.

19 March 1891: The ruling in R. v Jackson established that...

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19 March 1891

The ruling in R. v Jackson established that it was illegal in Britain for a husband to beat or imprison his wife.

Texts

Linton, Eliza Lynn. Amymone. Richard Bentley, 1848.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. An Octave of Friends. Ward and Downey, 1891.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Appendix B: Essays by Eliza Lynn Linton”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 403-27.
Anderson, Nancy F., and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix C: The Rebel of the Family: The Life of Eliza Lynn Linton”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 428-40.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix D: Blending Journalism with Fiction: Eliza Lynn Linton and Her Rise to Fame as a Popular Novelist”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 441-55.
Harsh, Constance, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix E: Eliza Lynn Linton as a New Woman Novelist”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 456-74.
Sanders, Valerie, and Eliza Lynn Linton. “Appendix F: Eliza Lynn Linton and the Canon”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem and Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 475-87.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Azeth, the Egyptian. T. C. Newby, 1847.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Dulcie Everton. Chatto and Windus, 1896.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Grasp Your Nettle. Smith and Elder, 1865.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. In Haste and at Leisure. W. Heinemann, 1895.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Introduction”. The Rebel of the Family, edited by Deborah T. Meem, Broadview, 2002, pp. 9-18.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Ione. Chatto and Windus, 1883.
Mathers, Helen et al. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, Vol.
9
, No. 6, pp. 907-14.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg. Tinsley Brothers, 1866.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “Miss Broughton’s Novels”. Temple Bar, Vol.
80
, pp. 196-09.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Ourselves. G. Routledge and Sons, 1869.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Patricia Kemball. Chatto and Windus, 1875.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Realities. Saunders and Otley, 1851.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. Sowing the Wind. Tinsley Brothers, 1867.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. The Atonement of Leam Dundas. Chatto and Windus, 1876.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland. Bentley and Son, 1885.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. “The Girl of the Period; The Modern Revolt; The Wild Women: as Politicians; The Wild Women: as Social Insurgents”. Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Victorian Writing by Women on Women, edited by Susan Hamilton, Broadview, 1995, pp. 172-07.
Linton, Eliza Lynn. The Rebel of the Family. Chatto and Windus, 1880.