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The Lady's Museum
''The Lady's Museum'' was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1760 and 1761. The magazine was edited and largely—if not entirely—written by British novelist and translator Charlotte Lennox. Like most eighteenth-century periodicals, ''The Lady’s Museum'' presented itself as a means of educating and informing its readers. In this, it resembles an earlier women’s periodical, ''The Female Spectator'' (1744-6), by Eliza Haywood. See also * List of 18th-century British periodicals * List of 18th-century British periodicals for women According to the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', "In the 18th century, when women were expected to participate in social and political life, those magazines aimed primarily at women were relatively robust and stimulating in content." Here follows a ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lady's Museum Magazines established in 1760 Defunct women's magazines published in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Lennox
Charlotte Lennox, ''née'' Ramsay (c. 1729 – 4 January 1804), was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, translator, essayist, and magazine editor, who has primarily been remembered as the author of ''The Female Quixote'', and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Richardson. However, she had a long, productive career in her own right. Life Charlotte Lennox was born in Gibraltar. Her father, James Ramsay of Dalhousie, was a Scottish captain in the British Army, and her mother Catherine, née Tisdall (died 1765), was Scottish and Irish. She was baptised Barbara Charlotte Ramsay. Very little direct information on her pre-public life is available, and biographers have extrapolated from her first novel such elements as seem semi-autobiographical. Charlotte lived for the first ten years her life in England before her father, who was a lieutenant in the guards, moved the family to Albany, New York in 1738, where he was lieutenant-governor. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
