- 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 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). [http://www.chawton.org/novel.php?NovelID=37 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" byRobert 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.63-76External links
* Joel H. Baer, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40524 ‘Aubin, Penelope (1679?–1731?)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 13 Nov 2006
* [http://courses.wcupa.edu/wanko/LIT400/Turkey/Aubin.htm Penelope Aubin on Turkey]
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