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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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.
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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.
249
But...
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.
204
Though FS 's son Richard Brinsley claimed not to have read it, he borrowed from it...
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
The notice in the Critical Review opened condescendingly. Guessing that the author was female, it warned its readers: It seldom happens that ladies equal in genius to Lennox , Brooke s, and Scott , figure...
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.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia, and Sir Thomas Edwyne Tomlins. Tributes of Affection. Longman and Dilly.
77
The Gentleman's Magazinecalled this novel, when it was published, a worthy successor...
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...
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...
Publishing Sarah Fielding
She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This...
Publishing Charlotte Forman
CF , exceptionally, devoted one of her Public Ledger essays (written as Probus) to a literary subject: a warm pre-publication welcome for Charlotte Lennox 's The Lady's Museum.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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