Henrietta

Annotated Edition: An eighteenth-century satirical novel that follows an iron-willed young Englishwoman as she attempts to make her own way in the world. A pioneer in the tradition of English women’s fiction, Charlotte Lennox was a valued friend to both Samuel Richardson and Samuel Johnson—and a major influence on Jane Austen. The heroine of Lennox’s Henrietta is a young Englishwoman who resists her aunt’s pressure to convert to Catholicism and marry an awful man—and as a result is set adrift in