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Eliza Lynn Linton

Born

in Keswick, Cumbria, The United Kingdom

February 10, 1822

Died

July 14, 1898

Genre

Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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Note Eliza's books are sometimes published under Elizabeth Lynn Linton or as E. Lynn Linton.

Eliza Lynn Linton was a British novelist, essayist, and journalist.

The daughter of a clergyman and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle, she arrived in London in 1845 as the protegé of poet Walter Savage Landor. In the following year she produced her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian; Amymone (1848), and Realities (1851), followed. None of these had any great success, and she became a journalist, joining the staff of the Morning Chronicle, and All the Year Round.

In 1858 she married W. J. Linton, an eminent wood-engraver, who was also a poet of some note, a writer upon his craft, and a Chartist agitator. In 1867 they separated in a friendly way, the h ...more

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Eliza Lynn Linton’s books

Average rating: 3.69 · 939 ratings · 151 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rebel of the Family 3.48 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1880 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witch Stories 3.55 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1861 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witches of Scotland 3.19 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fate Of Madame Cabanel 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1873	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About Ireland 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1890 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton, Deborah T Meem (Editor), Kate Holterhoff (Editor) 2.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl of the Period: And Other Social Essays 2.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Realities by Eliza Lynn Linton, Deborah T. Meem (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1851 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1868 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sowing the Wind by Eliza Lynn Linton, Deborah T. Meem (Editor), Kate Holterhoff (Editor) 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1867 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical”
― Eliza Lynn Linton

tags: ignorance, religion, superstition, unknown

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“whirligig”
― Eliza Lynn Linton, About Ireland

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“it is time for some of the sentimental fog in which so many of us have been living to be dispelled in favour of the light of truth!”
― Eliza Lynn Linton, About Ireland

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