Penelope Aubin

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

Works

• The Stuarts : A Pindarique Ode (1707)
• The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty The Queen (1708)
• The Wellcome : A Poem to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough (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.
  • Anne de Sola has edited a modern (2003) critical edition: ISBN 0-7734-6610-X
• 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
  • Anna de Sola has edited a modern (2000) critical edition: ISBN 0-7734-7701-2
• 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.

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

External links

• Joel H. Baer, ‘Aubin, Penelope (1679?–1731?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 Nov 2006
• Penelope Aubin on Turkey