Perry, Ruth, Susan Carlile, and Charlotte Lennox. “Introduction”. Henrietta, edited by Ruth Perry, Susan Carlile, Ruth Perry, and Susan Carlile, University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Hubback | CH
's mother, born Mary Gibson, was simple, unaffected, and not highly educated. Jane Austen recorded Mary's enjoyment, during her first pregnancy, of a family reading of Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote, and later... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | MJ
corresponded with Charlotte Lennox
and with publisher Ralph Griffiths
and his wife Isabella
. Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson
, Joseph Spence
, Thomas Warton
, and apparently Bonnell Thornton |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | Many of FR
's friends were literary people who wrote down their flattering opinions of her. James Northcote
, who lived in Joshua Reynolds
's house during the years 1771-5, wrote much praise of Frances... |
| Friends, Associates | Susannah Dobson | SD
, along with the novelist Charlotte Lennox
and Sylvia (Braithwaite) Thornton
(the wife from 1768 of Bonnell Thornton
), belonged to a network of devoted friends centred on Lydia, Lady Clerke
. |
| Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | Samuel Johnson
, visiting Oxford, boasted to MJ
of the closeness of his friendship with Charlotte Lennox
; a few months later Jones wrote to Lennox, to say she would be visiting London soon. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, No. 1, pp. 36 -0. 42-3 |
| 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. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 17 |
| 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, 2003. 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, 1998. 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 |
Timeline
16 January 1605
Miguel de Cervantes
published at Madrid the first part of his immensely influential mock-romanceDon Quixote; copies reached England by the summer.
23 April 1705
The Tender Husband; or, The Accomplish'd Fool by Richard Steele
opened on stage.
By 22 May 1755
George Colman
and Bonnell Thornton
edited and published an anthology entitled Poems by Eminent Ladies.
By July 1764
James Grainger
published his georgicThe Sugar-Cane: A Poem; he advised slaves not to repine, on the grounds that others were even worse off.
1768
The second of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan libraries opened in Leeds.
1774
The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah
and Henry Fielding
, Richardson
, Smollett
, and Lennox
.
April 1774
The Monthly Review, in a notice on Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive, quoted some lines which transform the Muses from ancient Greece into the living female poets of Britain.
1777
Richard Samuel
engraved his Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (or Portraits in the Character of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo) for Johnson's Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum for 1778...
1780
James Harrison
(hitherto chiefly known as a music publisher) began to issue the handsomely-produced Novelists' Magazine, a weekly serial reprinting of canonical novels.
January 1781-December 1782
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, or Beauties of British Poetry appeared, published by James Harrison
in four half-yearly numbers; it is arguable whether or not it kept the first number's promise of generous selections of work...
By January 1821
Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication; it was completed in 1824.