| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Penelope Aubin | Penelope Charleton (later Aubin)
was born in London, an illegitimate child. Recent discoveries about her identity make her previously listed birth-date far from certain. Aubin scholar Debbie Welham
has been so far unable to... |
| Friends, Associates | Penelope Aubin | Living in Hammersmith, she and her mother were close neighbours of the queen dowager, Catherine of Braganza
, and of a convent and girls' school run by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(the... |
| Literary responses | Penelope Aubin | Critic Chris Mounsey
thinks this novel too like a Haywood
sex-romp for PA
to wish to attach her name to it. Mounsey, Chris. “’ . . . bring her naked from her Bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard’s face, and then send his Soul to Hell’: Penelope Aubin, Impious Pietist, Humourist or Purveyor of Juvenile Fantasy?”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 1, pp. 55 -75. 61 Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubin’s The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721)”. Women’s Writing, No. 1, pp. 49 -63. 58 |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
published another translation (which Debbie Welham
recognises as her most important): The Illustrious French Lovers, with her name on the preface. Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press. 41: 99 Welham, Debbie. “Library and Early Women’s Writing. Women Writers. Penelope Aubin (1679 1738)”. Chawton House Library. |
| Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | PA
's History of Genghizcan the Great, translated from the French of François Pétis de la Croix
, appeared in 1722, dedicated to the Prince of Wales
. Both Debbie Welham
and Eighteenth-Century Collections... |
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