ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 (Nov 2018)

Review of Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind by Susan Carlile

  • Alexis McQuigge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.8.2.1203
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 2
p. 5

Abstract

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This article reviews Susan Carlile's recent biography of Charlotte Lennox, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind. Because much of Lennox's life story, and many of her works, remain mysterious to contemporary readers, Carlile's work highlights some unique and important aspects of the life of a - at least in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, a celebrated literary minds. Carlile's work is an important and necessary addition to the study of women's writing in the period, and contributes a great deal to those studying the works of Charlotte Lennox.

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