1752 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1752.
Scene from Samuel Foote's satire Taste with the playwright cross-dressed as Lady Pentweazel (painting by Robert Smirke)
Charlotte Lennox
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Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay, was a Scottish writer and a literary and cultural critic, whose publishing career flourished in London. Best known for her novel The Female Quixote, she was frequently pr
1752 in literature
…unknown date – The first of the Herculaneum papyri are discovered. Charlotte Lennox – The Female Quixote Voltaire – Histoire du docteur Akakia et du natif de Saint-Malo…
Portrait by John Smart, 1777
1778 painting of the Blue Stockings Society showing Lennox standing first from right
Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully