Henrietta
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 ...
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 ...
