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.
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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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:...
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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, 13 Nov. 1924, p. 733.
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Rhoda Broughton
RB
followed this with Joan, A Tale, 1876, which prompted a writ from Gilbey
's for alleged libel on their sherry and a consequent temporary cessation of the novel's sale. Eliza Lynn Linton
described...
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Beatrice Harraden
In 1899 BH
edited Eliza Lynn Linton
's posthumously published memoir, My Literary Life.
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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...
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Constance Smedley
An appendix, Women and the State by Ethel Snowden
, was reprinted from the January number of The World's Work, giving a brief history of women in local government and public positions.
Smedley, Constance, and Mrs Philip Snowden. Woman: A Few Shrieks!. Garden City Press.
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...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Porter
Not long before death she was, according to Eliza Lynn Linton
, in meagre and shabby circumstances.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
