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Witch Stories
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429 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1861
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Eliza Lynn Linton
141 books9 followersNote 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 husband going to America, and the wife returning to writing novels, in which she finally attained wide popularity. Her most successful works were The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872), Patricia Kemball (1874), and Christopher Kirkland.
She was also a severe critic of the "New Woman." Her most famous essay on this subject, "The Girl of the Period," was published in Saturday Review in 1868 and was a vehement attack on feminism. In 1891, she wrote "Wild Women as Politicians" which explained her opinion that politics was naturally the sphere of men, as was fame of any sort. "Amongst our most renowned womené, she wrote, "are some who say with their whole heart, 'I would rather have been the wife of a great man, or the mother of a hero, than what I am, famous in my own person." Mrs Linton is a leading example of the fact that the fight against votes for Women was not only organized by men.
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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 husband going to America, and the wife returning to writing novels, in which she finally attained wide popularity. Her most successful works were The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872), Patricia Kemball (1874), and Christopher Kirkland.
She was also a severe critic of the "New Woman." Her most famous essay on this subject, "The Girl of the Period," was published in Saturday Review in 1868 and was a vehement attack on feminism. In 1891, she wrote "Wild Women as Politicians" which explained her opinion that politics was naturally the sphere of men, as was fame of any sort. "Amongst our most renowned womené, she wrote, "are some who say with their whole heart, 'I would rather have been the wife of a great man, or the mother of a hero, than what I am, famous in my own person." Mrs Linton is a leading example of the fact that the fight against votes for Women was not only organized by men.
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March 12, 2022
Retópata 2022.
Punto 2: un libro de una autora nacida en el año 22 de otro siglo.
Se trata de un extenso ensayo sobre la historia de la brujería en Escocia, y enumera los casos concretos de mujeres con nombres y apellidos que fueron juzgadas y condenadas. La autora realiza un gran trabajo de documentación al investigar las causas reales (envidias, despecho, codicia) que llevaron a otras personas, incluso familiares y vecinos, a denunciar a estas mujeres con acusaciones ridículas y verlas arder sin el menor empacho. Especialmente perturbador me ha resultado leer que muchas personas que habían sido sanadas por mujeres que elaboraban remedios con productos naturales corrían a acusarlas de brujería tan pronto como se levantaban la cama, y en los juicios decían en voz alta: "Sí, declaro que estaba enfermo y ella me curó con unas hierbas". La autora reflexiona en cómo las desdichadas sufrían el mismo destino tanto si les acusaban de matar al ganado y envenenar el agua del río como si le salvaban la vida a alguien.
Punto 2: un libro de una autora nacida en el año 22 de otro siglo.
Se trata de un extenso ensayo sobre la historia de la brujería en Escocia, y enumera los casos concretos de mujeres con nombres y apellidos que fueron juzgadas y condenadas. La autora realiza un gran trabajo de documentación al investigar las causas reales (envidias, despecho, codicia) que llevaron a otras personas, incluso familiares y vecinos, a denunciar a estas mujeres con acusaciones ridículas y verlas arder sin el menor empacho. Especialmente perturbador me ha resultado leer que muchas personas que habían sido sanadas por mujeres que elaboraban remedios con productos naturales corrían a acusarlas de brujería tan pronto como se levantaban la cama, y en los juicios decían en voz alta: "Sí, declaro que estaba enfermo y ella me curó con unas hierbas". La autora reflexiona en cómo las desdichadas sufrían el mismo destino tanto si les acusaban de matar al ganado y envenenar el agua del río como si le salvaban la vida a alguien.
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