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001 2011034878
003 DLC
005 20130610100237.0
008 110907s2012 mduab 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011034878
020 $a9781611483901 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9781611483918 (electronic)
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042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aPR3541.L27$bZ485 2012
082 00 $a823/.6$223
100 1 $aLennox, Charlotte,$dapproximately 1729-1804.
245 10 $aCharlotte Lennox :$bcorrespondence and miscellaneous documents /$cedited and introducted by Norbert Schürer.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bBucknell University Press,$c2012.
300 $alvi, 423 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"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.
600 10 $aLennox, Charlotte,$dapproximately 1729-1804$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLennox, Charlotte,$dapproximately 1729-1804$vSources.
600 10 $aLennox, Charlotte,$dapproximately 1729-1804$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 1 $aSchürer, Norbert.