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A girl raised alone with her father's library takes French heroic romance for a guide to life, and expects every man she meets to be a ravisher or a knight. Charlotte Lennox published it in 1752 with Johnson's help and Richardson's; it is the best English answer to "Don Quixote" and the funniest book of its decade. The cure at the end is administered by a doctor and is more troubling than the disease. Sixty plates of Gainsborough and Reynolds landscapes and portraits, from rocky coasts to Sterne, mirror a heroine who reads every face and shore as a scene from romance.
A girl raised alone with her father's library takes French heroic romance for a guide to life, and expects every man she meets to be a ravisher or a knight. Charlotte Lennox published it in 1752 with Johnson's help and Richardson's; it is the best English answer to "Don Quixote" and the funniest ...
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Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804) grew up in colonial New York, came to London at fifteen and made her living by her pen for fifty years. Johnson gave a supper that lasted all night to celebrate her first novel and defended her ever after; she died poor anyway.
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1730–1804) grew up in colonial New York, came to London at fifteen and made her living by her pen for fifty years. Johnson gave a supper that lasted all night to celebrate her first novel and defended her ever after; she died poor anyway.
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