LINTON, ELIZA LYNN (1822-1898)

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LINTON, ELIZA LYNN (1822-1898) , English novelist, daughter of the Rev. J. Lynn,

vicar

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

of Crosthwaite, in Cumberland, was born at Keswick on the loth of February 1822. She early manifested

great

GREAT

independence of character, and in

great

GREAT

measure educated herself from the stores of her father's library. Coming to London about 1845 with a large stock of miscellaneous erudition, she turned this to account in her first novels, Azeth the Egyptian (1846) and Amymone (1848), a romance of the days of Pericles. Her next story, Realities, a tale of modern life (1851), was not successful, and for several years she seemed to have abandoned fiction. When, in 1865, she reappeared with Grasp your Nettle, it was as an expert in a new style of novel-writingstirring, fluent, ably-constructed stories, retaining the attention throughout, but affording little to reflect upon or to remember. Measured by their immediate success, they gave her an honour-able position among the writers of her day, and secure of an

audience

AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

, she continued to write with vigour nearly until her death. Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg (1866), Patricia Kemball (1874), The Atonement of Leam Dundas (1877) are' among the best examples of this more mechanical side of her talent, to which there were notable exceptions in Joshua Davidson (1872), a bold but not irreverent adaptation of the story of the Carpenter of Nazareth to that of the French Commune; and Christopher Kirkland, a veiled autobiography (1885). Mrs Linton was a practised and constant writer in the

journals

JOURNALS

of the day; her articles on the " Girl of the Period " in the Saturday

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

produced a great sensation, and she was a constant contributor to the St James's

Gazette

GAZETTE

, the Daily News and other leading news-papers. Many of her detached essays have been collected. In 1858 she married W. J. Linton, the engraver, but the union was
name of " bnffum." In 1864, owing to the serious aspect of the prevalent

adulteration

, a union of traders was formed under the name of the " Linseed Association." This

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BODY

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soon terminated by mutual consent; she nevertheless brought ' more telling basis of aesthetic up one of Mr Linton's daughters by a former

marriage

MARRIAGE

. A few years before her death she retired to Malvern. She died in London on the 14th of July 1898.
Her reminiscences appeared after her death under the title of My Literary Life (1899) and her life has 'been written by G. S.

Layard

LAYARD, SIR AUSTEN HENRY (1817-1894)

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