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The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland
This is a critical edition of Eliza Lynn Linton's semi-autobiographical novel in which she adopts a male persona in order to recount her relationships with other women. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory footnotes and extracts from other relevant works.
Paperback
,
386 pages
Published
September 1st 2011
by Victorian Secrets
(first published 2009)
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I read this for research purposes so perhaps people coming to it out of different interests would find it better. That said, a lot of the "tell-all" aspects of her times with other Victorian people didn't mean very much to me and it wasn't particularly focused or immediate as a memoir (aside from the faith/doubt parts, which got tedious to me but probably wouldn't if that's why you were reading this book!).
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Note
Eliza's books are sometimes published under Elizabeth Lynn Linton.
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822‑1898), 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 ...more
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Eliza Lynn Linton (1822‑1898), 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 ...more
