Henrietta

by Charlotte Lennox

Book Overview

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 fiction, the admirable Henrietta makes her way in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191904
• ISBN13: 9780813191904
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher