Title: Henrietta
First published: 1758
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Women, Women domestics, Fiction, historical, England, fiction, Women household employees, Fiction, historical, general
Places: England
Time periods: 18th century