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"Modern Women and What is Said of Them" from Elizabeth Lynn Linton. British novelist, essayist, and anti-feminist journalist (1822-1898).
"About Ireland" from Elizabeth Lynn Linton. British novelist, essayist, and anti-feminist journalist (1822-1898).
"Witch Stories" from Elizabeth Lynn Linton. British novelist, essayist, and anti-feminist journalist (1822-1898).
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.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. After moving to Paris, she married W. J. Linton in 1858, an eminent wood-engraver, who was also a poet o...
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In offering the following collection of witch stories to the public, I do not profess to have exhausted the subject, or to have made so complete a summary as I might have done, had I been admitted into certain private libraries, which contain, I believe, many concealed riches. But I had no means of introduction to them, and was obliged to be content with such authorities as I found in the British Museum, and the other public libraries to which I had access. I do not think that I have left much untold; but there must be, scattered about England, old MSS. and unique copies of records concerning which I can find only meager allusions, or the mere names of the victims, without a distinctive fact...