Tabitha Tenney

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Standard Name: Tenney, Tabitha
Married Name: Tabitha Tenney
Pseudonym: A Lady
TT , who lived in New England through the time of the American Revolution, published in 1799 (perhaps) and 1801, and lived for another thirty-six years apparently without further writerly activity, was the certain author of a fascinating novel about a woman led astray by her novel-reading, and the probable compiler of a pedagogic anthology.
Frontispiece of Boston edition, 1825, vol. 1, of "Female Quixotism; Or, the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon" by Tabitha Tenney, first published in ?1799. The title appears, abbreviated, over a scene of four women registering horror at a male figure sitting under a tree.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Lennox
The work began a whole genre of Quixote novels, of which the first seems to be The Spiritual Quixote, published by December 1754 (not Richard Graves 's work of that title, but a book...
Textual Features Amelia Opie
Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents.
qtd. in
Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Having been hailed in her youth as a genius above the usual employments of her sex,
Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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she has developed into a...

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Texts

Tenney, Tabitha. Female Quixotism. Editors Nienkamp, Jean and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Davidson, Cathy N., and Tabitha Tenney. “Foreword”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp et al., Oxford University Press, 1992, p. v - vii.
Tenney, Tabitha. “Introduction”. Female Quixotism, edited by Jean Nienkamp and Andrea Collins, Oxford University Press, 1992, p. xiii - xxxi.
Tenney, Tabitha, editor. The New Pleasing Instructor: or, Young Lady’s Guide to Virtue and Happiness. I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1799.