- Paperback: 290 pages
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; annotated edition edition (Jun 20 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813191904
- ISBN-13: 978-0813191904
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,422,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Proud beauty in distress, Dec 26 2010
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This review is from: Henrietta (Paperback)
Many of the fictional formulas of eighteenth-century fiction have their origin in the novels and plays of Charlotte Lennox. Samuel Johnson considered her "a great genius."But she was testy, squabbling with friends and alienating the literary world with her feminist critique of Shakespeare. Fame she won, but fortune eluded her.
Being a remarkable woman herself, her writing is rich in formidable women characters, running the gamut from female tyrants of large fortune to penniless heroines of ironclad integrity. Henrietta is of the later variety.
The highborn, high-minded, strikingly lovely young Henrietta finds herself alone in London without friends, family or haven. She has just fled the home of her rich aunt to avoid a repulsive marriage (or worse). Her brother is out of reach traveling. Her guardian is away on business. She has barely enough money for cheap lodgings while she awaits the return of one of these male protectors - a dangerously vulnerable situation for a beauty.
While trying to support herself in London, Henrietta meets with all sorts of human folly and vanity - permitting Charlotte Lennox to exercise her great talent for satire.
Henrietta has a sharp wit and can hold her own in conversational sparring with predatory males, irrational employers, wily Jesuits and disagreeable nobles. She's so self-possessed that we fear she'll never fall in love. But don't despair. Read on to the delightful end.
HENRIETTA was published in 1758. Do read the introduction after you read the book. It gives a fascinating overview of Charlotte Lennox's life and discusses her influence on later authors, including Jane Austen.
After reading SOPHIA, EUPHEMIA and now HENRIETTA, I'm a big fan of Charlotte Lennox. She bridges the gap between Fielding and Austen with an originality all her own.
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