The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by HerselfFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1995 - 324 страници Written in the popular memoir form, The Life of Harriot Stuart is also intriguing to us for what it reveals, via the use Lennox herself made of it later in her life, of the struggles of an ambitious, shrewd, independent-minded woman writer to be at once professionally accepted and thus economically secure, and yet to maintain her identity. Faced with a literary marketplace where professional well-being necessitated female deference to such influential male writers as Johnson and Richardson, and a marriage that required the same of her as a wife, Lennox allowed the facts of Harriot's life to be viewed as autobiographical. The life of her first heroine seems to have provided Lennox with an escape, serving as a kind of wish-fulfillment later in a life that did not give her opportunities for strong, passionate, individualistic behavior. |
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Страница 286 - These occasional sallies of Dr. Johnson, uttered from local causes and circumstances, but all retailed verbatim by Mr. Boswell, are filling all sort of readers with amaze, except the small party to whom Dr. Johnson was known, and who, by acquaintance with the power of the moment over his unguarded conversation, know how little of his solid opinion was to be gathered from his accidental assertions.
Страница 284 - continued he ; " when we came to the house, she desired me to leave her, ' for,' says she, ' I am under great restraint in your presence ; but if you leave me alone with Richardson, I'll give you a very good account of him : however, I fear poor Charlotte was disappointed, for she gave me no account at all.
Страница 302 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Страница 292 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds, ' Your Grace
Страница 304 - This objection seemed to sink deep into the minds of the greatest politicians at the board, and I don't know whether the bill won't be dropped, though it is certain it might be carried on with great ease, the world being entirely 'revenue du bagatelle' and honour, virtue, reputation, etc.
Страница 301 - Island, which is situated just in front of the town; therefore only the storms from the southwest are dangerous to the ships which ride at anchor here, because the port is open only on that side. The entrance however has its faults: one of them is that no men-of-war can pass through it; for though the water is pretty deep, it is not sufficiently so for great ships.
Страница 83 - My father was received with much respect by the inhabitants of A — , who had impatiently expected us. We were saluted by all the ships in the harbour, who had their flags and streamers out ; and the mayor, with the principal persons of the city, waited our landing, and conducted us to the fort, in which was a very fine house, where the commanding officer always resided.
Страница 13 - These volumes contain a series of love-affairs from 11 years of age, attended with a number of her adventures and misfortunes, which were borne with the patience, and are penn'd with the purity of a Clarissa...
Страница 15 - Assertion, that Female Minds are not capable of producing literary Works, equal even to those of Pope, now loses Ground, and probably the next Age may be taught by our pens that our Geniuses have been hitherto cramped and smothered, but not extinguished...
Страница 304 - The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to , Salvation ; or, An Answer to a Book entitled ' Mercy and Truth, or Charity maintained by Catholics.