Publisher's Synopsis
Sowing the Wind was Eliza Lynn Linton's first critically successful novel. Written during the breakdown of her marriage, it is openly (and often painfully) autobiographical. Like Linton herself, tomboyish Jane Osborn lands a job as a journalist on a daily newspaper and is forced to adjust as a woman in a masculine world. She is contrasted with her graceful cousin Isola Aylott, the victim of a jealous and tyrannical husband. As Isola fights to assert her subjectivity, the idealistic Jane provides female solidarity and strong opinions. Linton's novel epitomises the sensation genre, with its themes of inheritance, concealed identity, madness, and domestic violence. This edition includes a critical introduction by Deborah T. Meem and Kate Holterhoff and explanatory footnotes.
