Henrietta (18th-Century Novels By Women) - Softcover

Lennox, Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813191904 ISBN 13: 9780813191904

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2008

Synopsis

A pioneer in the tradition of English women's fiction, Charlotte Lennox was valued friend to both Samuel Richardson and Samuel Johnson and a major influence on Jane Austen. The heroine of Charlotte Lennox's Henrietta is a young Englishwoman who resists her aunt's pressure to convert to Catholicism and is set adrift in London society. But unlike many of her passive, vulnerable contemporaries in fiction, the admirable Henrietta makes her way in the world relying on her own cleverness, conviction, and wit. This groundbreaking work of satire and human folly is republished here in a fully annotated modern edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804) was an English novelist, poet, and playwright. Ruth Perry, professor of literature at MIT, has written widely on women in eighteenth-century England. Her most recent book is Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818. Susan Carlile, associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, has published articles in numerous journals and is writing a critical biography of Charlotte Lennox.

Review:

"Scholarly editing engenders a sense of responsibility in the editor towards the work and its author, a desire to present the author's work in a full and helpful manner so that other readers may find her work as satisfying as one has oneself. Ruth Perry and Susan Carlile clearly take that responsibility to heart."―Susan Kubica Howard, ECF

"The latest entry in the series is a welcome addition."―Kritikon Litterarum

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813191904
• ISBN 13: 9780813191904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Perry Ruth, Carlile Susan