Podcast appearances and mentions of charlotte lennox

"I have made up my mind to like no novels really but Miss Edgeworth's, yours, and my own."  —Jane Austen to her niece, Anna Lefroy, 1814Jane Austen's novels and letters are strewn with references to the female authors she admired—writers like Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Lennox. But these novelists, despite their wide popularity in their own time, have largely disappeared from our bookshelves. In this episode, rare book dealer Rebecca Romney shares some of their stories, examines their influence on Austen, and may even inspire you to add some of Austen's favorites to your own to-be-read list. Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of Type Punch Matrix, a Washington, DC-area rare book firm. Over the course of her career, she has sold Shakespeare folios, first editions of Newton's Principia Mathematica and Darwin's Origin of Species, and individual leaves from the Gutenberg Bible. The author of several books, her latest is Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend. She is also the rare books specialist on the HISTORY Channel's show Pawn Stars.For a transcript and show notes, visit https://jasna.org/austen/podcast/ep21/.*********Visit our website: www.jasna.orgFollow us on Instagram and FacebookSubscribe to the podcast on our YouTube channelEmail: podcast@jasna.org

Jacke takes a look at the life and works of eighteenth-century novelist Charlotte Lennox, whose poetry, plays, novels, and criticism earned her the approbation of the best literary minds of her day. Best known for The Female Quixote, a parody of Cervantes that later inspired Jane Austen, and Shakespear Illuminated, a pioneering feminist critique of Shakespeare's use of his sources (and frequent diminishment of his female characters), Lennox combined an active intelligence with an unusual fearlessness. PLUS Jacke talks to Camus scholars Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan, co-authors of States of Plague: Reading Camus in a Pandemic, about their choices for the last book they will ever read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Stephani rides a golf cart to the pot shop! Then we follow a little dog named Wishbong (Grace) into the past to learn about some badass literary ladies. We draw links between Jane Austen, Charlotte Lennox, and Madeleine de Scudery in this Women's History Month romp through time! And go look at Ethyl the Whale, PLEASE. P.S. The ancestors of modern whales developed from deer-like mammals that lived on land over the course of 10 million years (source article). ---- Our Slashtag.orgsies: www.stonerchickspodcast.com Become a Patron! patreon.com/stonerchicks Grace Penzell (@savinggrapes), Phoebe Richards (@27phoebe27), Kayla Teel (@keteel), and Stephani Thompson (@fannytragic). Instagram: @stonerchickspodcast Twitter: @stonerchickspod Facebook: Stoner Chicks Podcast TikTok: @broccolibroads Email: stonerchickspodcast@gmail.com Snail Mail: PO Box 80586, Seattle, WA 98108 --- Edited by Kayla Teel; Theme Song by Jessica DiMari; Cover Art by Ben Redder & AJ Dent

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The Female Quixote, Volume IIby Charlotte LennoxPublic Domain Creative Commons CCTopics and keywords #librivox, #literature, #audiobook, #fiction, #humor, #romanceLibriVox recording of The Female Quixote, Volume II, by Charlotte Lennox.This is the second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance the drama is flipped gender-wise, and Arabella mistakes herself for a maiden love of a romance. While the don thinks it his duty to praise the platonically pure damsels he meets (like the woman he loves), so Arabella believes it is in her power to kill with a look and it is the duty of her lovers to suffer ordeals on her behalf.A great listen!jealousy, romantic, love, lovers, romance, love-stories, attraction, free, free-stories, tea-cup-shorts, relationships, tale-teller-club, taleteller, books, tale-teller-book-club, www.tale-teller.clubsearch all episodes herehttps://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/stories-of-romance-tale-teller-club-me_jPsLiCpG/#search#remote_entertainment #jealousy #passion #rosecoloured #romance #lovestory #classics #talkingbook #freeaudiobook #free #freelibrary #freebooks #free_audiobooks #publicdomain #talkingbooks #taletellerclub #spotifylovepods #immersivestories #virtual_library #24hourbooks #taletellerclub #loversbooksOther Titles in our database....DateDurationThe Female Quixote, Volume II by Charlotte Lennox Episode 213 Mar300:00Love Stories no 9 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Lovers' Audiobooks13 Mar25:48Love Stories no7 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Lovers' Audiobooks12 Mar15:47The Female Quixote, Volume II by Charlotte Lennox TTC Ep 1 Live Listening Audiobooks12 Mar299:59When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart Part 2 Free Audiobooks Live at The Tale Teller Club08 Mar299:59When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart Part 1 Free Audiobooks Live at The Tale Teller Club08 Mar299:59Love Stories no6 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Lovers' Tale07 Mar21:30The Money Moon: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol07 Mar299:59Love Stories no5 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Lovers' Tale07 Mar20:00Love Stories no4 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Lovers' Tale07 Mar17:53Love Stories no3 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Lovers' Tale07 Mar28:01Love Stories no2 Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Lovers' Tale07 Mar28:02Love Stories Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Tale Tellers 005 Mar01:35Love Letters Live For the Passionate and Beloved Free Audiobooks About Romance05 Mar32:11Love Stories Real Life Tales of Ardour Amongst the Aristocracy Free Audiobooks Tale Tellers 105 Mar35:14I Love My Love in the Morning A Lovers Poem of Romance and Emotion Free Audiobook TTC05 Mar01:12Give In To Love Read in English Accent by Secrets Free Audiobook Tale Teller Club Podcast Book05 Mar02:10Her Lover, A Love Story for Romantics Short Free Audiobooks To Cherish and Share14 Feb11:47Love Stories Volume V2 no 9 the Little Mermaid Disney favourites Tale Teller Book Club27 Jan53:06Romance Stories

With Guest Lt. Charlotte Lennox

In our first episode our guest scholar Dr. Emily Grover discusses precursors to Austen's novels, the fraught history of female authors and readers, and the dangers of falling too deep into fiction. Bibliography Anne Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Project Gutenberg. Charles Lamb, and Mary Lamb. The Works Of Charles and Mary Lamb, Miscellaneous Prose, Project Gutenberg. Charlotte Lennox. The Female Quixote, Project Gutenberg. Marta Kvande and Emily Gilliland Grover. “The Mediation Is the Message: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal (1760).” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 32, no. 4, June 2020, pp. 535–57. doi:10.3138/ecf.32.4.535.

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Book 5, Part 1 Title: Northanger Abbey Overview: Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen's novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination. Published: 1818 Author: Jane Austen Genre: Romance Novel, Fiction Novel, Novel of Manners, Coming-of-Age Novel, Epistolary Novel Episode: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Book 5, Part 1 Part: 1 of 2 Length Part: 3:31:46 Book: 5 Length Book: 7:28:58 Episodes: 1 - 16 of 32 Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: romance, emma, jane austen, love Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Book 5, Part 2 Title: Northanger Abbey Overview: Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen's novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination. Published: 1818 Author: Jane Austen Genre: Romance Novel, Fiction Novel, Novel of Manners, Coming-of-Age Novel, Epistolary Novel Episode: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - Book 5, Part 2 Part: 2 of 2 Length Part: 3:57:12 Book: 5 Length Book: 7:28:58 Episodes: 17 - 32 of 32 Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Language: English Edition: Unabridged Audiobook Keywords: romance, emma, jane austen, love Credits: All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain. Wikipedia (c) Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. WOMBO Dream. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free-audiobooks/support

The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 146 with Heather Rose Jones An investigation across time of how the use of “masculine” clothing developed into a deliberate signal of women's same-sex interests. A slideshow version of this show is available on our YouTube channel. (This version does not have the re-mastered intro and references to TLT are obsolete.) In this episode we talk about: Historic Attitudes Toward Clothing Gender How Gendered Clothing Confers Gender Characteristics Cross-gender Garments Signifying Sexual Unruliness Theatrical Contexts Interpreted as Sexually Desirable to Men but Also to Women Male-coded Garments in Gender Play Combined with Same-Sex Erotics Women with Same-Sex Interests Depicted as Behaving Mannishly The Sartorial Stylings of Amazons and Bluestockings Lesbians in Riding Habits “Mannish” Clothing and the Decadent Movement People and Publications (Links are to LHMP blog posts or podcasts unless otherwise noted)Tournament with Cross-dressing Women 14th c Hic Mulier Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse (podcast) The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton Julie d'Aubigny Charlotte Cibber Charke Charlotte Cushman (podcast) The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1668) The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley (1709) The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (1744) (podcast) Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1713) Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740) Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1753) Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801) Diaries of Samuel Pepys (1666) (Wikipedia) Anne Damer (podcast) Ladies of Llangollen: Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby (podcast) Anne Lister Eupheia by Charlotte Lennox (1790) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) (Wikipedia) Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier (1835) Nana by Émile Zola (1880) Lélia by George Sand (1833) Natalie Clifford Barney (Wikipedia) Colette (Wikipedia) Rosa Bonheur Other References UsedAlbert, Nicole G. 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Harrington Park Press. (not yet blogged) Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Exotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25. Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0 Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4 Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8 Faderman, Lillian. 1981.  Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5 A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

The Evolution of Butch as a Lesbian Signifier The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 43d with Heather Rose Jones An investigation across time of how the use of “masculine” clothing developed into a deliberate signal of women’s same-sex interests. In this episode we talk about: Historic Attitudes Toward Clothing Gender How Gendered Clothing Confers Gender Characteristics Cross-gender Garments Signifying Sexual Unruliness Theatrical Contexts Interpreted as Sexually Desirable to Men but Also to Women Male-coded Garments in Gender Play Combined with Same-Sex Erotics Women with Same-Sex Interests Depicted as Behaving Mannishly The Sartorial Stylings of Amazons and Bluestockings Lesbians in Riding Habits “Mannish” Clothing and the Decadent Movement People and Publications (Links are to LHMP blog posts or podcasts unless otherwise noted) Tournament with Cross-dressing Women 14th c Hic Mulier Mary Frith/Moll Cutpurse (podcast) The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton Julie d’Aubigny Charlotte Cibber Charke Charlotte Cushman (podcast) The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1668) The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley (1709) The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu (1744) (podcast) Memoirs of the Life of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1713) Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740) Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (1753) Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (1801) Diaries of Samuel Pepys (1666) (Wikipedia) Anne Damer (podcast) Ladies of Llangollen: Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby (podcast) Anne Lister Eupheia by Charlotte Lennox (1790) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844) (Wikipedia) Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier (1835) Nana by Émile Zola (1880) Lélia by George Sand (1833) Natalie Clifford Barney (Wikipedia) Colette (Wikipedia) Rosa Bonheur Other References Used Albert, Nicole G. 2016. Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France. Harrington Park Press. (not yet blogged) Bennett, Judith and Shannon McSheffrey. 2014. “Early, Exotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London” in History Workshop Journal. 77 (1): 1-25. Castle, Terry (ed). 2003. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-12510-0 Donoghue, Emma. 1995. Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801. Harper Perennial, New York. ISBN 0-06-017261-4 Donoghue, Emma. 2010. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 978-0-307-27094-8 Faderman, Lillian. 1981.  Surpassing the Love of Men. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Lanser, Susan S. 2014. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-18773-0 Loughlin, Marie H. 2014. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8208-5 A transcript of this podcast is available here. Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Twitter: @heatherosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) If you enjoy this podcast and others at The Lesbian Talk Show, please consider supporting the show through Patreon: The Lesbian Talk Show Patreon The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox's published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain's Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay's preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family's needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox’s published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain’s Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay’s preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family’s needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox’s published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain’s Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay’s preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family’s needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox’s published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain’s Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay’s preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family’s needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox’s published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain’s Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay’s preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family’s needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox’s published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain’s Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay’s preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family’s needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim and influenced subsequent generations of authors. In Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Susan Carlile draws upon Lennox's published works, her surviving correspondence, and the studies of her era to reconstruct the life and times of this remarkable writer. Growing up in Britain's Atlantic empire, young Charlotte Ramsay's preparations for a position in the court were derailed by her marriage to an impecunious Scotsman. In need of an income, the newly married Lennox attempted a career as an actress before turning to her pen for her livelihood. Though her early writing won both a wide audience and the admiration of such influential figures as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, Lennox faced the continuous challenges common to writers of the era of earning an income sufficient for her family's needs. As Carlile details, this led Lennox to produce both fiction and nonfiction across a range of genres, which demonstrated the scope of her skills and inspired numerous imitators and successors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In the course of his long literary career, Samuel Johnson reviewed only one novel. Who was it by? None other than the "preposterously confident” Charlotte Lennox, a force in eighteenth-century prose and a model for Jane Austen – Min Wild tells us more; What happens if you ask a literary critic to watch top-grossing (pun intended) Hollywood comedies from the past three decades? Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explains how comedy reflects broader culture and anxieties; How are women treated in film and television? Is there cause for celebration? Alice Wadsworth joins us in the studio to discuss.BooksCharlotte Lennox: An independent mind by Susan Carlile Stealing the Show: How women are revolutionizing television by Joy Press Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive portrayals in speculative film and TV by Diana Adesola Mafe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.