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ELIZA LYNN LINTON (1822-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LYNN See also:LINTON (1822-1898)  , See also:English novelist, daughter of the Rev . J . See also:Lynn, See also:vicar of Crosthwaite, in See also:Cumberland, was See also:born at See also:Keswick on the loth of See also:February 1822 . She See also:early manifested See also:great See also:independence of See also:character, and in great measure educated herself from the stores of her See also:father's library . Coming to See also:London about 1845 with a large stock of See also:miscellaneous erudition, she turned this to See also:account in her first novels, Azeth the See also:Egyptian (1846) and See also:Amymone (1848), a See also:romance of the days of See also:Pericles . Her next See also:story, Realities, a See also:tale of See also:modern See also:life (1851), was not successful, and for several years she seemed to have abandoned fiction . When, in 1865, she reappeared with Grasp your See also:Nettle, it was as an See also:expert in a new See also:style of novel-writingstirring, fluent, ably-constructed stories, retaining the See also:attention throughout, but affording little to reflect upon or to remember . Measured by their immediate success, they gave her an See also:honour-able position among the writers of her See also:day, and secure of an See also:audience, she continued to write with vigour nearly until her See also:death . Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg (1866), Patricia Kemball (1874), The See also:Atonement of Leam Dundas (1877) are' among the best examples of this more See also:mechanical See also:side of her See also:talent, to which there were notable exceptions in See also:Joshua See also:Davidson (1872), a bold but not irreverent See also:adaptation of the story of the See also:Carpenter of See also:Nazareth to that of the See also:French See also:Commune; and See also:Christopher Kirkland, a veiled autobiography (1885) . Mrs See also:Linton was a practised and See also:constant writer in the See also:journals of the day; her articles on the " Girl of the See also:Period " in the Saturday See also:Review produced a great sensation, and she was a constant contributor to the St See also:James's See also:Gazette, the Daily See also:News and other leading news-papers . Many of her detached essays have been collected . In 1858 she married W .

J . Linton, the engraver, but the See also:

union was name of " bnffum." In 1864, owing to the serious aspect of the prevalent See also:adulteration, a union of traders was formed under the name of the " See also:Linseed Association." This See also:body samples all linseed oil arriving in See also:England and reports on soon terminated by mutual consent; she nevertheless brought ' more telling basis of aesthetic up one of Mr Linton's daughters by a former See also:marriage . A few years before her death she retired to See also:Malvern . She died in London on the 14th of See also:July 1898 . Her reminiscences appeared after her death under the See also:title of My See also:Literary Life (1899) and her life has 'been written by G . S . See also:Layard (190 O .

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