Talk:Charlotte Lennox

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[edit] What?

"In a time when women writers were ignored, her work attracted the interest of Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson."

That is unadulterated nonsense. It was not a time when novels by women were ignored. It was not a time when women were ignored. It was not a time when women had to pretend to be men. It was nothing of the sort. First, female novelists outsold male novelists. Second, Frances Burney and Hannah More were both celebrated, and they were exact contemporaries. Third, Susannah Centlivre and Elizabeth Haywood were doing just fine. It's total piffle to impose such a simplification on the general "time." Indeed, female novelists and the "feminine novel" suffered a setback in popularity around the 1760's, but it's not because women weren't capable of being authors. After all, the primary readership for novels had been, was, and would continue to be female. I'm about to do a total rewrite of the article, but I had to preserve my outrage a little before I do the overhaul. Geogre 15:07, 10 April 2006 (UTC)