Penelope Aubin (c. 1679-c. 1738) was an English novelist and translator. Her works include: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode (1707), The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to

Spectral and monstrous mothers populate the cultural and literary landscape of the eighteenth century, overturning scholarly assumptions about this being an era

This work concentrates on how eighteenth-century feminine novelists articulate the concerns important to women's lives and fates, and argues that these novelist