Short Biography

Charlotte Lennox

Also known as: Charlotte Ramsay Lennox, Barbara Lennox, Barbara Charlotte Ramsay, Barbara Ramsay, Barbara Charlotte Lennox

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

January 1, 1730 • Birth Sign: Capricorn

Citizenship:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States, Kingdom of Great Britain

Death date:

January 4, 1804 (74 years old)

Short Bio:

thumb|Engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1793 (National Portrait Gallery, D13802) |alt=A black and white portrait of Charlotte Lennox. Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay (4 January 1804), was a Scottish writer and a literary and cultural critic, whose publishing career flourished in London. Best known for her novel The Female Quixote (1752), she was frequently praised for her genius and literary skill.

As a result, Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait and she was featured in "The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain" in 1778. Samuel Johnson declared her superior to all other female writers, and Henry Fielding said that she "excelled Cervantes." Her pioneering study of Shakespeare's source material is still cited and her magazine (1760–1761) is the focus of "The Lady's Museum Project."

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