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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
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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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, 1998. 204 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Madeleine de Scudéry | |
| 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 | 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 | Sarah Murray | The first anecdote about the girls is sentimental in tone. The sweet and lovely Miss Menil reforms the eleven-year-old malicious telltale Miss Cummings by taking her part when she has done wrong. Miss Cummings, filled... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green | The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton
and Thomas Love Peacock
, a sentimental melodrama, a... |
| 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, 1797. 77 |
| 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 | Phebe Gibbes | |
| 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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