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Charlotte Ramsey Lennox (c. 1727 - January 4, 1804) was an English author and poet of the 18th century. Within a period after women writers were ignored, her operate attracted the interest of Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson.
Life Charlotte number 1 became noted for her poetry once publishing Verse form around Many Occasions in 1747. One of her best known verse form was A Art of Flirt which appeared within ''Gentleman's Magazine in 1750. She was likewise an actress early on inside her life, although critics were non swayed by her performances. She wrote a amount of V novels (although exact data in her operate is non available), the best known of which was A Female Quixote (A Escapade of Arabella) inside 1752. This book was notable because of its hard heroine, Arabella, & a hard detail towards women. Within 1753 she published Shakespear Illustrated, the piece of literary criticism, and as well translated numbers of works into English. From either 1760 to 1761 she wrote for the periodical The Lady's Museum, which contained material which would yet comprise her 1762 novel Sophia''. Despite her moderate literary profits & advancement for women's literature during this part of the 17th century, she died within poverty in 1804.
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