Charlotte Lennox

11 March 1729 - 02 January 1804

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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Reception	Sappho	Among the earliest of Sappho 's translators into English was Anne Finch ; among recent translators is Mary Barnard , 1958. Stevie Smith declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...
Residence	Frances Reynolds	Some time after making the break with her brother FR moved back into London, where she lived for a while in the household of John Hoole in Great Queen Street. Then came a series...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Montagu	These essays are almost feminist. The first, playfully deistic, argues the existence of God from a specifically female viewpoint. The second urges the importance of subscribing to the English edition of Madame de Maintenon's...
Textual Features	Clara Reeve	CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...
Textual Features	Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan	This novel was suggested by my reading the Memoirs of the Duc de Sully [translated by Charlotte Lennox ] and falling very much in love with Henri IV . qtd. in Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 39 She set it, therefore, in...
Textual Features	Anna Letitia Barbauld	The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's...
Textual Features	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
Textual Features	Charlotte Smith	The heroine is a mysterious young widow embittered by her experience of a corrupt guardian and a dissipated husband who betrayed and deserted her. The play mocks literary generic conventions, including those that were CS
Textual Production	Susanna Centlivre	The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier , May Drummond
Textual Production	George Eliot	A notebook surviving from GE 's schooldays contains (besides such items as poems copied from annuals) an essay on Affectation and Conceit, which sketches the character of a vain woman in a tone of...
Textual Production	Frances Brooke	She had contributions from several friends: her husband , Arthur Murphy , and Richard Gifford , and Lord Orrery , whose annotated copy survives in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library , University of Toronto
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Mary Seymour Montague	The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier , and eleven British...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins	This work has been valued chiefly for its anecdotes of Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds . LMH closes the volume on the name of Reynolds (printed in honorific capitals), in an implicit tribute to...

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