Literary Criticism
on Charlotte Lennox

Auty, Susan G. The Comic Spirit of Eighteenth-Century Novels. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1975.

Avery, Emmett L. "The Shakesperean Ladies Club." Shakespeare Quarterly 7 (1956): 154-8.

Bannet, Eve Tavor. "The Theater of Politeness in Charlotte Lennox's British-American Novels." Novel 33.1 (1999): 73-92.

Barney, Richard A. Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1999.

Barreca, Regina. Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1994.

Bartolomeo, Joseph F. "Female Quixotism v. 'Feminine' Tragedy: Lennox's Comic Revision of Clarissa." New Essays on Samuel Richardson. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 163-175.

Beasley, Jerry C. "Charlotte Lennox." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981-. 306-312. Vol. 39.

Berg, Temma F. "Getting the Mother's Story Right: Charlotte Lennox and the New World." Papers on Language and Literature 32.4 (1996): 369-98.

Birrer, Doryjane. "Playing by the Rules: Discourses of Civility and Decorum in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Paper Abstract from The Second Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 1999. http://femrhet.cla.umn.edu/proposals/birrer_doryjane.htm (link checked July 15, 2001).

Carlile, Susan L. "Arabella, a Female Agent of Truth." M. A. Thesis. Arizona State University, 1995.

Catto, Susan. "Modest ambition : the influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson and the ideal of female diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox and Frances Brooke." D.Phil. Oxford, 1998.

Cave, Wendy Nelson. "Charlotte Lennox, First American Woman Playwright." The New Rambler XIX (1978): 3-20.

Cohen, Michael. "First Sisters in the English Novel: Charlotte Lennox to Susan Ferrier." The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature. Ed. Joanna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State UP, 1993. 98-109.

Cowie, Alexander. "Rev. of Mystery of Charlotte Lennox by Phillipe Séjourné." American Literature XL (1969): 553-4.

Craft, Catherine A. "Reworking Male Models: Aphra Behn's Fair Vow-Breaker, Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, and Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote." Modern Language Review 86.4 (1991): 821-838.

Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993.

Doody, Margaret. "Shakespeare's Novels: Charlotte Lennox Illustrated." Studies in the Novel 19 (1987): 296-310.

Dorn, Judith. "Reading Women Reading History: Form in Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum." Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 18.3 (1992): 7-27.

Eastham, Leah Raye. "Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: A Critical Study of Her Novels." PhD Diss. U of Arkansas, 1968.

Ellison, Julie. "There and Back: Transatlantic Novels and Anglo-American Careers." The Past as Prologue: Essays to Celebrate the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of ASECS. Ed. Carla H. Hay and Syndy M Conger. New York: AMS, 1995. 303-323.

Fyvie, John. Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty. London: Archibald Constable, 1905.

Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994.

Gardiner, Ellen. "Writing Men Reading in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Studies in the Novel 28.1 (1996): 1-11.

Gordon, Scott Paul. "The Space of Romance in Lennox's Female Quixote." Studies in English Literature 38 (1998): 499-516.

Gray, James. "Dr. Johnson, Charlotte Lennox, and the Englishing of Father Brumoy." Modern Philology 83 (1985): 142-150.

Green, Katherine Sobba. The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A Feminized Genre. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1991.

Green, Susan. "A Cultural Reading of Charlotte Lennox's Shakespeare Illustrated." Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield and Deborah C. Payne. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995. 228-257.

Hanley, Brian. "Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Reception of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote in the Popular Press." ANQ 13.3 (2000): 27-32.

Hayes, Elizabeth G. "Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: The Female Quixote." PhD Diss. Stanford, 1964.

Holman, D. L. "Mrs. Lennox and Dr. Johnson." Chambers Journal March 1947: 183-6.

Hoople, Sally C. "The Spanish, English, and American Quixotes." Annales Cervantinos 22 (1984): 119-142.

Isles, Duncan. "Johnson and Charlotte Lennox." New Rambler 3 (June 1967): 34-48.

Isles, Duncan. "The Lennox Collection." Harvard Library Bulletin 18 (1970): 317-44.

Isles, Duncan. "The Lennox Collection." Harvard Library Bulletin 19 (1971): 36-60; 165-86; 416-35.

Isles, Duncan. "Other Letters." Times Literary Supplement (5 August 1965): 685.

Isles, Duncan. "Unpublished Johnson Letters." Times Literary Supplement (29 July 1965): 666.

Kauvar, Elaine M. "Jane Austen and The Female Quixote." Studies in the Novel 2 (1970): 211-21.

Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. "Reading Shakespeare's Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate." Modern Language Quarterly 55.4 (1994): 429-53.

Kynaston, Agnes Mary. "The Life and Writings of Charlotte Lennox, 1720-1804." M.A. Thesis. U of London, 1937.

Labbie, Erin. "History as 'Retro': Veiling Inheritance in Lennox's The Female Quixote." Bucknell Review 42.1 (1998): 79-97.

Langbauer, Laurie. Women and Romance: Consolations of Gender in the English Novel. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

Lennox, Charlotte. Euphemia. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1989.

Lennox, Charlotte. The Female Quixote. Ed Margaret Dalziel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.

Lennox, Charlotte. The Female Quixote. Ed Sandra Shulman. New York: Pandora, 1986.

Lennox, Charlotte. The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written By Herself. Ed Susan Kubica Howard. Teaneck, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1995.

Looser, Devoney. "Charlotte Lennox and the Study and Use of History." In British Women Writers and the Writing of History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000): 89-118.

Levin, Kate. "'The Cure of Arabella's Mind: Charlotte Lennox and the Disciplining of the Female Reader." Women's Writing 2.3 (1995): 271-290.

Lynch, James J. "Romance and Realism in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Essays in Literature 14.1 (1987): 51-63.

Martin, Mary Patricia. "'High and Noble Adventures': Reading the Novel in The Female Quixote." Novel 31.1 (1997): 45-62.

McNeil, David. "Charlotte Lennox's Fictionalization of New York: Gender, Curiosity and Colonial Venture." TransAtlantic Crossings: Eighteenth-Century Explorations. Ed. Donald W. Nichol. St. John's, Newfoundland: Dept. of English Language and Literature, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1995. 39-48.

Malina, Debra. "Rereading the Patriarchal Text: The Female Quixote, Northanger Abbey, and the Trace of the Absent Mother." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8.2 (1996): 271-292.

Marshall, David. "Writings Masters and 'Masculine Exercises' in The Female Quixote." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5.2 (1993): 105-135.

Maynadier, Gustavus Howard. The First American Novelist? Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1940.

Mitra, Madhuchhanda. "Educating the Eighteenth-Century Heroine: The Lessons of Haywood, Lennox, and Burney." PhD Diss. Kent State U, 1989.

Moore, Pamela. "The Female Quixote." Medical Humanities. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/lennox300-des-.html (Link checked July 15, 2001).

Motooka, Wendy. The Age of Reasons: Quixotims, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Paulson, Ronald. Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

Paulson, Ronald. Representations of Revolution (1790-1820). New Haven: Yale UP, 1983.

Paulson, Ronald. Satire and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale UP, 1967.

Pawl, Amy. "Feminine Transformations of the Quixote in Eighteenth-Century England: Lennox's Female Quixote and Her Sisters."

Pitcher, Edward W. "Charlotte Ramsay Lennox's 'History of Bianca Capello' (1760)." American-Notes-and-Queries 14 (1976): 130-31.

Ross, Deborah. "Mirror, Mirror: The Didactic Dilemma of The Female Quixote." SEL 27.3 (1987): 455-473.

Rothstein, Eric. "Woman, Women, and The Female Quixote." Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997. 249-275.

Roulston, Christine. "Histories of Nothing: Romance and Femininity in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Women's Writing 2.1 (1995): 25-42.

Schmid, Thomas H. "'My Authority': Hyper-Mimesis and the Discourse of Hysteria in The Female Quixote." Rocky Mountain Review 51 (1997): 21-35.

Schofield, Mary Anne. Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind: Disguising Romances in Feminine Fiction, 1713-1799. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1990.

Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski, ed. Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Athens: Ohio UP, 1986.

Sejourne, Phillipe. The Mystery of Charlotte Lennox: First Novelist of Colonial America (1727?-1804). Vol. 62. Aix-En-Provence: Publications Des Annales De La Faculte Des Lettres, 1967.

Shevelow, Kathryn. "Charlotte Lennox." Dictionary of British and American Women Writers. Ed. Janet Todd. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld, 1985.

Shevelow, Kathryn. "'C__ L__' to 'Mrs. Stanhope': A Preview of Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 1.1 (1982): 83-6.

Sloman, Judith. "The Female Quixote as an Eighteenth-Century Character Type." Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest. Ed. Robert H. Carnie. Calgary, Alberta: Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest, 1972. 86-101. Vol. 4.

Small, Miriam Rossiter. Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: An Eighteenth Century Lady of Letters. New Haven: Yale UP, 1935.

Small, Miriam Rossiter. Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: An Eighteenth Century Lady of Letters. New York: Archon Books, 1969.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "The Subtle Sophistry of Desire: Dr. Johnson and The Female Quixote." Modern Philology 85.4 (1988): 532-542.

Spencer, Jane. "Minor women novelists and their presentation of a feminine ideal, 1744-1800 : with special reference to Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Griffith, Harriet Lee, Clara Reeve, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane West". D.Phil. Oxford, 1982.

Spencer, Jane. "Not Being a Historian: Women Telling Tales in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England." Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative: The European Tradition. Ed. Roy Eriksen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994. 319-40.

Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

Spender, Dale. Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. London: Pandora, 1986.

Staves, Susan. "Don Quixote in Eighteenth-Century England." Comparative Literature 24 (1972): 193-215.

Thomson, Helen. "Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote: A Novel Interrogation." Living By the Pen: Early British Women Writers. Ed. Dale Spender. New York: Teacher's College, 1992. 113-125.

Todd, Janet. The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.

Todd-Naylor, Ursula. "Charlotte Lennox." B.Litt. Oxford, 1931.

Vogler, Frederick W. "Vital d'Audiguier and Charlotte Lennox: Baroque Studies, Women's Studies, and Literary Resurrection." Romance Notes 36.3 (1996): 293-99.

Walker, Eric C. "Charlotte Lennox and the Collier Sisters: Two New Johnson Letters." Studies in Philology XCV.3 (1998): 320-332.

Warfel, Harry R. "Rev. of Mystery of Charlotte Lennox by Phillipe Séjourné." Early American Literature III (1968): 216.

Warren, Leland E. "Of the Conversation of Women: The Female Quixote and the Dream of Perfection." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 11 (1982): 367-380.

Woods, Stephanie A. "Phenomenology and the Collapse of Structure in The Female Quixote." http://personal.centenary.edu/~swoods/quixote.html (link viewed July 15, 2001).

Zimmerman, Everett. "Personal Identity, Narrative, and History: The Female Quixote and Redgauntlet." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 12.2-3 (2000): 369-390.

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