Eliza Lynn Linton
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Eliza Lynn Linton (10 February 1822 – 14 July 1898) was an English journalist and novelist, known as the first woman to be a salaried journalist in the UK.
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- We landed at the Ferry House, and struck off into the woods full of globe flowers by the lake side, and of yellow poppies by the wood wall; of hyacinths beneath the trees; of the curved crozier heads of the sprouting bracken; of young foxglove spathes, thick, downy, and as yet flowerless; of tufts of mountain fern like Indians' head-dresses; of trailing brambles and yet more delicate sprays of wild-raspberry; of bird's-eye, blue and lustrous, of violets and wood-sorrel; of lady's-mantles, green, gold-spotted; of delicate wind-flowers and starry stitchwort,—full of all manner of sweet wood-flowers; and then, returning, we saw two large carts and two large horses put into the ferry-boat, which a man nearly as large rowed leisurely across, according to the mode and manner of the place.
- The Lake Country. Smith, Elder and Company. 1864. pp. 14–15.
- In re-reading these pages I am now more than ever convinced that I have struck the right chord of condemnation, and advocated the best virtues and most valuable characteristics of women. I neither soften nor retract a line of what I have said.
- "Preface". The Girl of the Period: and Other Social Essays. vol. 1 of 2. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 1883. p. viii.
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- In her early writings in the 1840s and 1850s she had been an ardent supporter of women's rights and even free love, and had received particular notoriety with her shocking 1851 novel Realities. In her middle years, however, she modified her radical views, and her novels such as The Rebel of the Family (1880) reflect her growing conservatism and ambivalence about women's rights.
- Nancy Fix Anderson in: "Eliza Lynn Linton: The Rebel of the the Family (1880) and Other Novels". The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction. Routledge. 12 November 2012. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-136-51252-0.
