![]() In the following year she produced her first novel, Azeth, the Egyptian, which was succeeded by Amymone (1848), and Realities (1851), followed. Linton arrived in London in 1845 as the protégée of poet Walter Savage Landor. She died at Queen Anne's Mansions, London, on 14 July 1898, and her ashes were scattered in the Crosthwaite churchyard. She usually lived in London, but about three years before her death retired to Brougham House, Malvern. It is Keswick and yet not Keswick, as I am Eliza Lynn and yet not Eliza Lynn”. She returned briefly to Cumbria and to her childhood home in 1889, to feel “half in a dream here. 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 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. Linton in 1858, an eminent wood-engraver, who was also a poet of some note, a writer upon his craft, and a Chartist agitator. 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.Īfter moving to Paris, she married W. Lynn, vicar of Crosthwaite, and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle. ![]() Eliza Lynn Linton was born in Keswick, Cumbria, England, the daughter of the Rev. ![]()
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