Memoirs Of The Count Of Comminge

Author : Marianna D’Ezio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830240
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox written by Marianna D’Ezio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1756 Charlotte Lennox, already a celebrated novelist—she had just published her most renowned work, The Female Quixote, a year before—translated from the original French one of the most successful novels written by Madame Claudine Gérin, the marquise de Tencin, Mémoires du comte de Comminge (1735). At the time, Madame de Tencin was a controversial public figure, an intellectual woman and one of the most distinguished salonnières in eighteenth-century France. Although Tencin’s name as the authoress of the novel was kept secret until after her death, notwithstanding the outstanding success of her Mémoires, Charlotte Lennox knew that the novel had been penned by a woman and decided to translate it and later serialize it in her feminist magazine The Lady’s Museum, a periodical wholly devoted to women’s literary and cultural education. Lennox’s translation of Tencin’s short novel is here reprinted for the first time after two centuries with critical notes and an introduction, in an edition that takes into account a close comparison between Lennox’s translation and Madame de Tencin’s original French version, and analyses all the variations and addenda that appeared in Lennox’s own version of The History of the Count de Comminge.