Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837)
Auteur de Female Quixotism: exhibited in the romantic opinions and extravagant adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon
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Œuvres de Tabitha Gilman Tenney
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- Nom canonique
- Tenney, Tabitha Gilman
- Date de naissance
- 1762-04-07
- Date de décès
- 1837-05-02
- Lieu de sépulture
- Winter Street Cemetery, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA (birth)
Washington, D.C., USA - Professions
- novelist
- Courte biographie
- Tabitha Gilman Tenney was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to an historic and influential family. Little is known of her early life. In 1788, she married Samuel Tenney, a surgeon who had served in the army during the American Revolution. He was elected to Congress as a Senator from New Hampshire in 1788, and she accompanied him to Washington, DC. They lived there for 16 years, while he served four terms, before returning to Exeter. Her novel Female Quixotism (1801) was one of the most popular books in the USA prior to the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. It went through at least five editions.
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Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic… par Tabitha Gilman Tenney
The hilarious adventures of a woman who believes everything she reads--and the only thing she reads is romance fiction. This early American novel is both more interesting and more accessible for a modern reader than Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. And since Tenney's novel sticks with its misguided, self-styled heroine for her whole life, it's also both more affecting and more effective as a cautionary tale.
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 79
- Popularité
- #226,897
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 3