The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton

Three years before her death she moved to Brougham House, Malvern. Later years and deathĬonsidered a very witty and forthright personality, Eliza Lynn Linton was a true champion of the anti-feminist. Some of her best articles and essays include The Girl of the Period, The Judicial Shock to Marriage, Are Good Women Characterless, George Eliot, The Higher Education of Women, and Democracy in the Household.Ī stout anti-feminist she was very vocal against the New Woman ideal too. Her articles during the 1860s and 1870s were strikingly popular amongst the masses for their excruciating appeal.ĭuring her stint as a prominent journalist, she ridiculed, rebuked, and criticized extensively on matters like feminism, marriage, and equal rights. A journalist and her articlesĮliza gained most of her compliments when she was with the Saturday Review. In her expansive career, she has written collections of stories and a staggering twenty-five novels including Joshua Davidson (1872), The Atonement of Leam Dundas (1877), In Haste and at Leisure (1895), The One Too Many (1894), and My Literary Life (1899). Widely recognized as the most celebrated Lynn Linton works, The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872), where she chastised the Church for being the bearers of hypocrisy and lies, Patricia Kemball (1874), and the Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885), where she illustrated her life story in the body of a man, are pieces of extraordinary literature. This was the onset of the everlasting greatness that was to come for her in the future. It was after her breakage from her husband in 1867 that she gained the attention that she deserved.Īfter William took his children and left for Lake District in 1864, Eliza was able to refocus and between 18, she wrote and released three novels in quick progression namely, Grasp Your Nettle (1865), Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg (1866), and Sowing the Wind (1867). This marriage would play an influential role in her life as it was this life experience that helped in her later literary ventures. They separated in 1867 on amicable terms but not before publishing a book together, The Lake Country (1864). This selflessness, she would later come to realize was a mistake.Įliza, a pervasively independent critic of the patriarchal society would often clash with her deep-seated husband. William was a widower and Eliza wanted to help him. MarriageĮliza married the politically deep-seated American engraver William James Linton in 1858. Eliza also joined the Monthly Review in 1866. Between 18, she worked as a correspondent for London dailies while living in Paris.

Throughout her illustrious career, she wrote more than 300 pieces of fiction and non-fiction for publication and newspaper houses like Literary Gazette, Saturday Review, The Cornhill, All the Year Round, Queens, and Pall Mall Gazette.

The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton