The heroine of Charlotte Lennox’s Henrietta is a young English woman who resists her aunts pressure to convert to Catholicism and is set adrift in London society. But unlike many of her passive, vulnerable contemporaries in fiction, the admirable Henrietta makes her way in the world by relying on her own cleverness, conviction, and wit. This groundbreaking work of satire and human folly Is republished here in a fully annotated modern edition