Charlotte Lennox : correspondence and miscellaneous documents / edited and introducted by Norbert Schürer.
2012
PR3541.L27 Z485 2012
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Title
Charlotte Lennox : correspondence and miscellaneous documents / edited and introducted by Norbert Schürer.
ISBN
9781611483901
9781611483918 (electronic book)
9781611483918 (electronic book)
Published
Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (480 pages) : illustrations, maps
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PR3541.L27 Z485 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.6
Summary
"This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and she interacted with many other influential figures including her patroness the Countess of Bute, publisher Andrew Millar, and the Reverend Thomas Winstanley. In addition to Lennox's and her correspondents' letters, this book presents related documents such as the author's proposals for subscription editions of her works, her file with the Royal Literary Fund, and a series of poems and stories supposedly composed by her son but perhaps written by herself. In these carefully and extensively annotated documents, Charlotte Lennox traces the vagaries in the career of a female writer in the male-dominated eighteenth-century literary marketplace. The introduction situates Lennox in the context of contemporaneous print culture and specifically examines the contentious question of the authorship of The Female Quixote, Lennox's experimentation with various forms of publication, and her appeals for charity to the Royal Literary Fund when she was impoverished towards the end of her life. The author who emerges from Charlotte Lennox was an active, assertive, innovative, and independent woman trying to find her place--and make a literary career--in eighteenth-century Britain. Thus, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of female authorship, literary history, and eighteenth-century studies."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Schürer, Norbert, editor.
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