The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...
Literary responses
Charlotte Lennox
Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne
raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane
on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after...
Publishing
Charlotte Lennox
Fifty items relating to CL
(mostly letters addressed to her) survive in the Houghton Library
, Harvard University
. This collection was discovered in 1964 but took some years to reach scholarly notice.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
317, 320-1
Publishing
Charlotte Lennox
A second edition followed on 19 March 1761. It featured the first appearance of Lennox's name on a title-page, and a dedication (supplied by Johnson
; the first edition had none) to the Duchess of Newcastle
Reception
Charlotte Lennox
Among modern scholars, Duncan Isles
called this the fullest and probably most reliable biography, and Susan Carlile
regrets that it has not been more used.
qtd. in
Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennoxs Age and The Life of Harriot StuartEighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol.
4
, 2005, pp. 103-37.
110
This year three magazines ran articles about CL
(a...
Textual Production
Charlotte Lennox
An anonymous translation from Voltaire
, The Age of Lewis XIV, published by Dodsley
, has been thought to be by CL
; her biographer Susan Carlile
denies this.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
326
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
156n69
Textual Production
Charlotte Lennox
She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson
as mediator, she consulted Richardson
about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of...
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Texts
Carlile, Susan. “Adapting Rousseau: O’Keeffe, Fenwick, Smith, and Edgeworth Address Female Education”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Carlile, Susan. “Charlotte Lennox’s Birth Date and Place”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
249 (n.s. 51)
, No. 4, pp. 390-2.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Carlile, Susan. “Dramatic Revival: The Woman Playwright circa 1769”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA.
Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennoxs Age and The Life of Harriot StuartEighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol.
4
, 2005, pp. 103-37.
Perry, Ruth et al. “Introduction”. Henrietta, edited by Ruth Perry et al., University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Brack, O M, Jr, and Susan Carlile. “Samuel Johnsons Contributions to Charlotte Lennoxs The Female QuixoteYale University Library Gazette, Vol.