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.
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/.
The British Critic (in the only review received by The Children of the Abbey)
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
judged it to be entertaining and well-written. It felt the well-drawn character of Adela to be somewhat too romantic, but...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Reception
Margaret Oliphant
Emma Marshall
, another contributor, thought MO
's piece admirable,
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...
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...
Textual Features
Sophie Veitch
The interdependence of her passionate feelings, athleticism, and goodness is made evident in her foil, Edith Cranley (later Edith Mason). Edith is a perfect little lady,
Veitch, Sophie. The Dean’s Daughter. National Publishing Company.