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ELIZA LYNN LINTON - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 73484

The Victorian-era novelist and journalist, known for her anti-feminist opinions, signs her name in black ink Autograph sentiment signed: "Your affectionate friend/ E. Lynn Linton" in black ink. 4x1¾ clipped signature.

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ELIZA LYNN LINTON
The Victorian-era novelist and journalist, known for her anti-feminist opinions, signs her name in black ink
Autograph sentiment signed: "Your affectionate friend/ E. Lynn Linton" in black ink. 4x1¾ clipped signature. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was a British novelist, essayist, and most memorably an anti-feminist journalist. Born into a family of clergymen, Linton's career began in London in 1845 as the protégé of poet Walter Savage Landor; the following year she released her first novels Azeth, The Egyptian (1847), Amymone (1848), and Realities (1851), none of which had much success. In 1848, Linton became the first female to ever be hired as a salaried journalist when hired to join the staff of the Morning Chronicle and later Household Words. She went on to write more than twenty novels including The True History of Joshua Davidson (1872), Patricia Kemball (1874) and Christopher Kirkland (1885). However, Linton is perhaps best known for her severe anti-feminist criticism, particularly in her essay "The Girl of the Period", a vehement attack on "The New Women" as the educated, professionally-aspiring feminist of the mid-Victorian period was known, which was published by the Saturday Review in 1868, as well as her essay "Wild Women as Politicians" (1891) claiming that politics was naturally the sphere of men, as was fame of any sort; she claimed "Amongst our most renowned women 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'". Irregularly cut. Toned. Stains throughout. Edges slightly frayed. Ink notes on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.

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