The Lady's Museum

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The Lady's Museum was a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom between 1760 and 1761.

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The magazine was edited and largely—if not entirely—written by British novelist and translator Charlotte Lennox. [1] 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. [2]

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References

  1. Facer, Ruth. "Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804)" (PDF). Biographies of Women Writers. Chawton House Library. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  2. Dorn, Judith (Fall 1992). "Reading Women Reading History: The Philosophy of Periodical Form in Charlotte Lennox's The Lady's Museum". Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques. 18 (3): 7–27. JSTOR   41292836.