Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Textual Production
Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Mathers, Helen et al. “Is Society a Pleasure or a Bore?”. The Idlers’ Club, Vol.
9
, No. 6, pp. 907-14.
912-13
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)...
Textual Production
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
decided in her teens that she wanted to be a writer. In 1887, with the encouragement of her mother
(who was based in France) the two of them embarked on a winter in the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margery Lawrence
He worked mostly in meals for hotels and railways, but served on government food committees in both world wars.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(2 September 1948): 6
Curiously, ML
describes her marrying him in a poem titled Aspasia
Married...
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
Mary Ann Kelty
Reviewers praised this novel for its depiction of character and its intimate knowledge of the human heart.The Monthly Magazine singled out its impeccable morality, suitable for a young and female readership.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine was heavily political in content, while Tait's was designed to have greater appeal to the general reader.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Between 1832 and 1846 (when she retired) CIJ
contributed over four hundred articles to the...
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...
Textual Production
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
Within the span of nine years MCH
produced eleven more novels, a biographical memoir, a novella, and a work of social commentary (The Poor of the Period; or, Leaves from a Loiterer's Diary...
Friends, Associates
Beatrice Harraden
BH
described herself as the literary god-daughter of Eliza Lynn Linton
. (Her literary godfather was William Blackwood
). Her first meeting with Linton (the turning-point of her life, she wrote)
Harraden, Beatrice. “Mrs. Lynn Linton”. The Bookman, Vol.
