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.
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...
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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Madeleine de Scudéry
MS
was highly influential for women writers in English. Many of the women who wrote during the eighteenth century had grown up on her romances. Charlotte Lennox
may appear to be stabbing MS
in the...
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...
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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.
