Henrietta
By: by Charlotte Lennox ; edited by Ruth Perry and Susan Carlile.
Contributors: Perry, Ruth, 1943-; Carlile, Susan, 1967-
Series: Eighteenth-century novels by women
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813124902; 9780813191904
Subjects: Women domestics -- Fiction; Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 world relying on her own cleverness, conviction, and wit. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.