Penelope Aubin

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

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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). 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.

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

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