![]() ![]() That one felt her in after life, with all her sweet womanliness to have so much of the man in her was probably due to the same alloy in her composition. It is curious to find that even thus early in her life she was looked upon by her father and others rather in the light of a naughty boy than a weak and defenceless little girl, naughty or otherwise. In his biography of her, her friend, Layard Somes, says. ![]() But, sometimes it seems that Eliza Lynn Linton, though not precisely comfortable in a male guise, has been drawn to describing herself in a masculine way. Why did its author seek to tell the story of her life through a male persona? True, it does allow her to present her ambition and strong opinions in ways which are more acceptable to the age, because they are uttered by a man. ![]() The novel was widely reviewed at the time, as a kind of transvestite autobiography, an autobiography in drag, neither properly fictional nor thoroughly autobiographical. So, she features as the male protagonist, Christopher Kirkland. As I mentioned, Lynn Linton wrote her autobiography, but she disguised it as a novel, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, in and she reversed the sex of some, though not all of the characters, including herself. Hybrid suggests a mixture of male and female, and we may think of this character in lesbian or even in early transgender terms. ![]()
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