Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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
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
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
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
.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
39
She set it, therefore, in...
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
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
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...
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...