Charlotte Lennox

1730–1804

1 standalone book

Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay; c. 1729–1804) was a Scottish writer and literary and cultural critic whose publishing career flourished in London. She is best known for her novel The Female Quixote (1752) and was frequently praised for her literary skill, with Samuel Johnson declaring her superior to all other female writers and Henry Fielding saying she surpassed Cervantes. Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait, and she was featured in The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain in 1778. Her pioneering study of Shakespeare's source material is still cited, and her magazine, The Lady's Museum (1760–1761), remains a subject of scholarly study.

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1730