Charlotte Lennox : : An Independent Mind /

Charlotte Lennox : : An Independent Mind / / Susan Carlile.

Charlotte Lennox (c.1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century London author whose most celebrated novel, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works published over forty-three years. Her stories of independent women influenced Jane Austen, especially in her novels Northanger Abbey and Sense...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2018
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Carlile, Susan ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.) :; 12 Colour Images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Texts
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • 1. New World Thinking
  • 2. An English Sappho
  • 3. Making a Trade of Her Wit
  • 4. Uniting the Laudable Affections of the Mind
  • 5. Debating "Genius"
  • 6. Prospering in a Patronizing Profession
  • 7. "The Same Darling End ... by Different Means"
  • 8. Recasting a Career
  • 9. "The Law of Custom" ... or of "Fools"?
  • 10. "Work upon That Now!"
  • 11. Friendship, Marriage, and Motherhood
  • 12. "A Pen That Conferred Immortality"
  • Lennox's Afterlife
  • Notes
  • Publications, Editions, and Reprints
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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