![]() "father" bequeathing them to "Christopher," who then marries "Lambert" children whom "Christopher" loves, and of their dying The account of the beautiful and neglected Linton (theįrederick Dennis of Hale White's Clara Hopgood) with his sex changed to female, as Christopher Kirkland is Eliza Lynn herself with her sex changed to male. Dalrymple, the mystical inspiration of Kirkland's late adolescence, or Althea Cartwright, the heartless vamp of his youth, or even Cordelia Gilchrist, the woman whom he cannot marry despite their love because she is a Catholic, may perhaps in real life have beenĮither women or men, although one is inclined to think that theyīut "Esther Lambert," the woman Christopher marries, is justĪs surely a portrait of Eliza Lynn's husband, W. To have them loved by a man? It is not always possible to answer,Īnd in some instances it may not be very important: Mrs. Original sex could be preserved in the novel since it was appropriate Lesbian tendencies-were they really women all along, whose Were the various women, for example, whomĬhristopher Kirkland is represented as loving, actually men whomĮliza Lynn had loved? Or-since she had a masculine character and Obert Lee Wolff, who sees many thematic parallels between Linton's The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) and William hale White's Clara Hopgood (1896), explains that her novel is actually an autobiography in which “she switched the sex of the protagonist” (378), which can confuse readers, who wonder ![]()
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