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, 1992, p. xiii - xxxi.
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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, 1992, p. xiii - xxxi.
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Literary responses
Tabitha Tenney
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...