Elizabeth Dow Leonard
, in memoirs published seventy-seven years after Female Quixotism, called it a superlatively silly book (on the word of those who had read it, since she herself had not), and claimed...
Leisure and Society
Tabitha Tenney
Elizabeth Dow Leonard
also dubiously claims that TT
was self-consciously statuesque and sentimental, known for the slowness of her speech.
Tenney, Tabitha. “Introduction”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, p. xiii - xxxi.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Tabitha Tenney
According to the memoirist Elizabeth Dow Leonard
(who does not inspire confidence) Samuel Tenney had a defective knowledge of the law and was a brawny, raw-boned and awkward but very good man.
Tenney, Tabitha. “Introduction”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, p. xiii - xxxi.