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LENNOX, CHARLOTTE (1720-1804)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 420 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LENNOX, See also:CHARLOTTE (1720-1804) , See also:British writer, daughter cif See also:Colonel See also:James See also:Ramsay, See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of New See also:York, was See also:born in 1720. She went to See also:London in 1735, and, being See also:left unprovided for at her See also:father's See also:death, she began to See also:earn her living by See also:writing. She made some unsuccessful appearances on the See also:stage and married in 1748. See also:Samuel See also:Johnson had an exaggerated admiration for her. " Three such See also:women," he said, speaking of See also:Elizabeth See also:Carter, Hannah More and Fanny See also:Burney, " are not to be found; I know not where to find a See also:fourth, except Mrs Lennox, who is See also:superior to them all." Her See also:chief See also:works are: The See also:Female Quixote; or the Adventz,res of Arabella (1752), a novel; Shakespear illustrated; or the novels and histories on which the plays . . . are founded (1753-1754), in which she argued that See also:Shakespeare had spoiled the stories he borrowed for his plots by interpolating unnecessary intrigues and incidents; The See also:Life of Harriet See also:Stuart (1751), a novel; and The See also:Sister, a See also:comedy produced at Covent See also:Garden (18th See also:February 1769). This last was withdrawn after the first See also:night, after a stormy reception, due, said See also:Goldsmith, to the fact that its author had abused Shakespeare.

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