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Eliza Lynn Linton (10 February 1822 – 14 July 1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant.〔I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p.560〕 ==Life== Eliza Lynn Linton was born in Keswick, Cumbria, England, the daughter of the Rev. J. Lynn, vicar of Crosthwaite, and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle. The death of her mother when Eliza was five months old led to a chaotic upbringing, in which she was largely self-educated; but in 1845 she left home to earn her living as a writer in London.〔G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District'' (1993) p. 180〕 After moving to Paris, Linton married W. J. Linton in 1858, an eminent wood-engraver, who was also a poet of some note, a writer upon his craft, and a Chartist agitator. She moved into his ramshackle house, Brantwood, in the Lakes, with his seven children from his earlier marriage, and wrote her Cumbrian novel ''Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg'' there.〔G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District'' (1993) p. 371-2〕 In 1867 the couple separated in a friendly way, the husband going to America, Eliza going back to her life as a London writer. She would return briefly to Cumbria and to her childhood home in 1889, to feel “half in a dream here. It is Keswick and yet not Keswick, as I am Eliza Lynn and yet not Eliza Lynn”.〔G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District'' (1993) p. 180〕 She usually lived in London, but about three years before her death retired to Brougham House, Malvern. She died at Queen Anne's Mansions, London, on 14 July 1898, and her ashes were scattered in the Crosthwaite churchyard.〔G. Lindop, A Literary Guide to the Lake District'' (1993) p. 179〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eliza Lynn Linton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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