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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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ELIZA

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

union was name of " bnffum." In 1864, owing to the serious aspect of the prevalent adulteration, a union of traders was formed under the name of the "
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Linseed Association." This
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body samples all linseed oil arriving in 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
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marriage . A few years before her death she retired to
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Malvern . She died in London on the 14th of
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July 1898 . Her reminiscences appeared after her death under the title of My
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Literary Life (1899) and her life has 'been written by G . S . Layard (190 O .

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