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.
Photo of a carbon print of Eliza Lynn Linton by W. and D. Downey, published by Cassell, 1890. She sits at a small chinoiserie table with lattice-style legs, as if paused in the act of writing on a sheaf of papers. Her right hand holds a pen; her chin rests on her left. She has a broad face with wire spectacles perched on her nose, and wears a white cap and a dark (black?) dress in several layers, with lace at the wrists and a good deal of dark decoration including jet beads sewn on. She has a metal cuff bra

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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 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.
qtd. in
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, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 145
Her reputation as a financially successful author brought her unwelcome...
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, 1944.
106
It...
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...
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 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, 2000, pp. 295-07.
306n25
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, July 1896, pp. 907-14.
912-13
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 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
, Sept. 1898, pp. 16-17.
16
Reception Margaret Oliphant
Emma Marshall , another contributor, thought MO 's piece admirable,
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
305
but hated Eliza Lynn Linton 's contribution on George Eliot , and feared that her own, on Juliana Horatia Ewing , was being...
Reception George Sand
Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
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 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...
Textual Features Christian Isobel Johnstone
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...

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