Eliza Lynn Linton

10 February 1822 - 14 July 1898

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.

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Reception	Henry James	The story proved both controversial and lucrative for him. Eliza Lynn Linton , ever interested in the changing moral complexion of young girls, wrote privately to James asking him to account for the heroine's behaviour...
Publishing	Isabella Ormston Ford	On 23 April 1892 IOF contributed an article entitled Women and the Labour Party to a special series for the Leeds Times on Social and Political Questions by Representative English Women. Other notable contributors...
Publishing	Helen Mathers	HM joined forces with Eliza Lynn Linton , Marie Leighton , Annie S. Swan , Evelyn Sharp , and Douglas B. Sladen to contribute to The Idler's Club an essay entitled Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore? Mathers, Helen et al. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, Vol. 9 , No. 6, pp. 907-14. 912-13
Publishing	Beatrice Harraden	The Bookman printed BH 's two-page valedictory reminiscence of Eliza Lynn Linton , who had died two months before this. Harraden, Beatrice. “Mrs. Lynn Linton”. The Bookman, Vol. 8 , pp. 16-17. 16
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. 306n25
Publishing	Beatrice Harraden	BH had her first short story accepted for Belgravia (formerly edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ) after Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine had declined it. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. She went on to publish other contributions to Blackwood's; even by...
Author summary	Sarah Stickney Ellis	The prolific SSE , author of thirty-four books, was the most popular writer of Victorian conduct literature. Her four advice books addressed women in the burgeoning middle class; she also wrote novels, poems, and didactic...
Literary responses	Marghanita Laski	The Times Literary Supplement printed a less positive review of the George Eliot biography, finding it too heavily reliant on a totally unreliable witness, Eliza Lynn Linton , whose envious and insensitive pronouncements on George...
Literary responses	Harriet Martineau	HM was highly regarded by many other women writers of her day. Elizabeth Barrett Browning pronounced her the most manlike woman in the three kingdoms (that is, in England, Scotland, and Ireland)...
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...
Literary responses	Agnes Strickland	Lives of the Queens of England was frequently reprinted with additions and revisions; the 1852 edition, regarded as definitive, was reprinted in 1972 with an introduction by the Stricklands' fellow-biographer Antonia Fraser . Fraser 's...
Literary responses	Sarah Grand	The Review of Reviews perhaps disingenuously took SG 's acknowledgement of faults in The Modern Girl to mean that she deplored the emergence of this type: Mrs. Lynn Linton will chortle for joy when she...
Literary responses	Frances Trollope	Mary Russell Mitford spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 316
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...
Literary responses	Mary Russell Mitford	John Kenyon wrote in 1833 to tell MRM of the delight taken by himself and his brother in her tolerant and humanizing pen. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 145 Her reputation as a financially successful author brought her unwelcome...

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Linton, Eliza Lynn. The Rebel of the Family. Editor Meem, Deborah T., Broadview, 2002.

Linton, Eliza Lynn, and George Somes Layard. The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges. Hutchinson, 1900.

Linton, Eliza Lynn. “The Threatened Abdication of Man”. National Review, Vol.

, pp. 577-92.

Linton, Eliza Lynn. The True History of Joshua Davidson. Strahan, 1872.

Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Arthur Hopkins. Under Which Lord?. Chatto and Windus, 1879.

Linton, Eliza Lynn, editor. Witch Stories. Chapman and Hall, 1861.

Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.