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.
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...
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
In 1899 BH
edited Eliza Lynn Linton
's posthumously published memoir, My Literary Life.
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
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
In her novel Youth Calling, BH
presented a friendship between a young woman writer and an older woman which is thought to be based on her early relationship with Eliza Lynn Linton
.
“Youth Calling”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1191, p. 733.
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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...
Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, pp. 9-34.
27
Her diary mentions meeting briefly many leaders in the suffrage campaign. Her fellow activists and sympathizers included: sisters Alexandra
and Gladys Wright
; Sanitary Inspector and fellow...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
George Eliot
In addition to his intellectual heterodoxy, Charles Bray was a sexual nonconformist. He had several illegitimate children, of whom he and his wife adopted at least one. GE
may or may not have known about...
Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research.
vol. 1
She also belonged to the Society of Authors
, and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant
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...
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...
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...
