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
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
The Female Quixote
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The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a comic novel by Scottish writer Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two ye
Charlotte Lennox
…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 Female Quixote 1st ed