Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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Charlotte Lennox
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Standard Name: Lennox, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Ramsay
Married Name: Charlotte Lennox
Pseudonym: Sappho
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of the Female Quixote
CL
wrote during the eighteenth century, in every genre: poetry, fiction, translation, drama, a periodical, and scholarship. Yet she found it hard to make a living. Current interest in The Female Quixote still tends unjustly to obscure the rest of her oeuvre.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriette Wilson | As a girl HW
apparently cherished the ambition that one day she would write the female Gil Blas much as Charlotte Lennox
had written The Female Quixote. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | Other women novelists found this a fertile text. Critic Susan Catto
suggested that the social ignorance of Lennox
's Arabella owes something to that of Ophelia. She also noted that at a ball the heroine... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriette Wilson | Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 249 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sheridan | Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox
's Euphemia. Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford. 204 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | Cecilia was well received. The Critical Review, for instance, gave it high praise in a notice following directly on that month's lead review (which was of Charles Burney's General History of Music, second... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | EST
's brother Thomas Edlyne
included a poem in praise of The Victim of Fancy in their joint volume in 1797. Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia, and Sir Thomas Edwyne Tomlins. Tributes of Affection. Longman and Dilly. 77 |
| Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | |
| Occupation | David Garrick | This began his career as theatre manager. One of a manager's duties might be considered to be the putting on of new plays, to ensure the health of the theatre of the future, but familiar... |
| Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Forman | CF
, exceptionally, devoted one of her Public Ledger essays (written as Probus) to a literary subject: a warm pre-publication welcome for Charlotte Lennox
's The Lady's Museum. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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