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Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898)

Autor(a) de The Rebel of the Family

29+ Works 140 Membros 5 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Obras por Eliza Lynn Linton

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Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1822-02-10
Data de falecimento
1898-07-14
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Keswick, Cumberland, England, UK
Local de falecimento
London, England, UK
Locais de residência
Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK
Paris, France
Educação
autodidact
Ocupações
writer
journalist
novelist
essayist
Relações
Landor, Walter Savage (mentor)
Linton, William James (husband)

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Eliza Lynn Linton was born in Keswick, Cumbria, England, the youngest child in the large family of the Rev. J. Lynn, vicar of Crosthwaite. Her mother died when she was five years old, and her father left her mostly unsupervised during her childhood. She became self-educated with the help of his library. In 1845, at age 23, went to London to become a professional writer under the aegis of poet Walter Savage Landor, who introduced her to Charles Dickens. The following year, she published her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian, followed by Amymone: A Romance in the Days of Pericles (1848) and Realities: A Tale of Modern Life (1851). None of these met with success, and she became a journalist, contributing to the Morning Chronicle and later joining the staff of the Monthly Review. She was a prolific writer of articles and has been characterized as the first Englishwoman to receive a regular salary as a journalist. In 1858, in Paris, she married W.J. (William James) Linton, an engraver, poet, and radical activist of the Chartist reform movement who was 10 years her senior, and moved into his house in the Lake District with his seven children from an earlier marriage. The couple produced a book together, the illustrated travel guide Lake Country (1864). During this time, she wrote for Dickens's publication Household Words, and then for its successor, All the Year Round. In 1867, she separated amicably from her husband and returned to London. She finally achieved popularity with the novels Grasp Your Nettle (1864), The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872), Patricia Kemball (1874), and The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885). She continued to contribute all her life to periodicals such as the St. James’s Gazette, the Saturday Review, and the Daily News. Although she was an emancipated woman and supported the right of married women to own their own property, she was often vehemently anti-feminist, as in The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays (1883).

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I am not going to attempt a real review of this book. It is one woman’s very narrow-minded look at the changes she sees in the society around her. I more skimmed it than read it, because reading it in detail was just too excruciatingly painful. I picked selected topics and read those, and I will give a small example of how she thinks.

From a savage squaw gathering fuel or drawing water for the wigwam, to the lady giving up the keys to her housekeeper, housekeeping has been considered one of the primary functions of women. The man to provide--the woman to dispense; the man to do the rough initial work of bread-winning, whether as a half-naked barbarian hunting live meat or as a city clerk painfully scoring lines of rugged figures--the woman to cook the meat when got,...any system which ignores these separate functions, is of necessity imperfect and wrong.

Well, you get the idea. She would die a thousand deaths if she saw us now! She despises “the girl of the period”. She hates her for her ambition, her interest in fashion, her lack of motherly instinct, her inability to attain the “ideal” that Linton has set.

I will not actually claim to have read this book. I didn’t really do that. But I read enough. It hasn’t anything positive to offer as far as I can see, and isn’t even like reading something that contributes to our understanding of the time itself.
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mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
The stories in this book were originally published in 1853 as a special Christmas edition of Dickens's magazine, Household Words, the second such.

Dickens again asked his contributors to provide him with stories that exemplified the spirit of Christmas, rather than being specifically set at Chritmastime. So, the stories and poems are about family ties, affection, overcoming adversity, and murder and ghosts!

There are some good tales here, notably The Old Lady's Story by Eliza Lynn Linton and The Squire's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell, but overall this collection is not quite as strong as the first volume, A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. Nonetheless, a nice Yuletide read.… (mais)
½
 
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Michael.Rimmer | Mar 30, 2013 |
An overlooked, entertaining, and scathing look at the hypocrisies and classism of mid-Victorian upper-class society. Like Jane Austen, Linton does a fantastic job of creating ridiculous characters that often border on being caricatures, which in this case is not a flaw but rather a strength that contributes to the one's enjoyment and understanding of the novel. It is unclear what Linton, a professed anti-feminist, intends for her message to be, but I actually found the ambiguity of the novel's message to be one of its neatest parts. You can read this and cheer for Perdita, the protagonist, as she struggles against traditional views of instilled idleness for upper-class females, or you can read The Rebel of the Family as an amusing study of society. Either way, you are sure to be entertained.… (mais)
 
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stephxsu | 2 outras críticas | Nov 9, 2009 |
Lady Wombat says:

A fascinating look at how an anti-feminist of the late 19th century tackled the "new woman." Rather than a diatribe or screed, Linton creates an ambiguous portrait of a girl totally at odds with the values of her conventional family. "
 
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Wombat | 2 outras críticas | Apr 29, 2009 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
29
Also by
10
Membros
140
Popularidade
#146,473
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
5
ISBN
27
Marcado como favorito
2

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