Penelope Aubin

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Penelope Aubin (c. 1679 - c. 1738) was an English novelist and translator.

[edit] Works

  • The Stuarts : A Pindarique Ode (1707)
  • The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty The Queen (1708)
  • The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family (1721)
  • The Life of Madam de Beaumount,a French Lady (1721)
  • The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721)
  • The Doctrine of Morality (1721). Translation by T.M. Gibbs of M. De Gomberville. Republished in 1726 as Moral Virtue Delineated.
  • The Noble Slaves: Or the Lives and Adventures of Two Lords and Two Ladies (1722)
  • The Adventures of the Prince of Clermont, and Madam De Ravezan (1722). Translation of Mme Gillot De Beaucour.
  • History of Genghizcan the Great (1722). Translation of M. Petis de le Croix.
  • The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English lady; taken from her own memoirs (1723). Online edition at www.chawton.org
  • The Life and Adventures of the Lady Lucy (1726)
  • The Illustrious French Lovers (1726). Translation of Les Illustres Françaises by Robert Challe
  • The Life and Adventures of The Young Count Albertus, The Son of Count Lewis Augustus, by the Lady Lucy (1728)
  • The Life of the Countess de Gondez (1729). Translation.

[edit] Further reading

  • Aparna Gollapudi, 'Virtuous Voyages in Penelope Aubin's Fiction', Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 45:3 (Summer 2005), pp. 669-690
  • William H. McBurney, 'Mrs Penelope Aubin and the Early-Eighteenth Century English Novel', Huntington Library Quarterly, 20 (1956-7), pp.245-267
  • Chris Mounsey, ' '...bring her naked from her bed, that I may ravish her before the Dotard's face, and then send his Soul to Hell': Penelope Aubin, Impious Pietist, Humourist or Purveyor of Juvenile Fantasy?', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (2003), pp.55-75
  • Sarah Prescott, 'Penelope Aubin and the Doctrine of Morality: a reassessment of the pious woman novelist', Women's Writing, Volume 1, No.1 (1994), pp.99-112
  • Debbie Welham, 'The Particular Case of Penelope Aubin', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 31, Number 1 (2008), pp.63-76

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