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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Samuel Johnson | Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and... |
| Occupation | David Garrick | This began his career as theatre manager. One of a manager's duties might be considered to be the putting on of new plays, to ensure the health of the theatre of the future, but familiar... |
| Literary responses | Frances Burney | Cecilia was well received. The Critical Review, for instance, gave it high praise in a notice following directly on that month's lead review (which was of Charles Burney's General History of Music, second... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | EST
's brother Thomas Edlyne
included a poem in praise of The Victim of Fancy in their joint volume in 1797. |
| Literary responses | Phebe Gibbes | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | JA
's biographer Claire Tomalin
lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox
, Frances Burney
, Charlotte Smith
, Maria Edgeworth
, and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | The title-page promises embellishment with characters and anecdotes of well-known persons, Hatton, Ann. Chronicles of an Illustrious House. Minerva. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Madeleine de Scudéry | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Hays | Among the book's contents are poems and fiction (including dream visions and an Oriental tale. Titles like Cleora, or the Misery Attending Unsuitable Connections and Josepha, or pernicious Effects of early Indulgence foreground Hays's didactic... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | A more recent generation of feminist scholars has succeeded in locating EH
in the developing tradition of women's fiction. Critic Mary Anne Schofield
has argued that her heroines are feisty feminists. Paula Backscheider
points out... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | With Charlotte Lennox
's The Female Quixote as starting-point, this story follows a novel-reading heroine whose response to events and people in actual life is distorted by what she reads. It seems quite likely that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Tabitha Tenney | Neither the Cumberland episode, nor her father's death, nor her own serious illness brought on by grief, can change Dorcasina. She next fancies that a new servant, John Brown, is a lover in disguise. (The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Angelina, generally treated as a descendant of Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote, shows just how permeable is the boundary between ME
's juvenile and adult fiction. It warns against influence from the wrong... |
| 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. 17 |
| 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. 249 |
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