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Lennox, Charlotte Ramsay

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Lennox, Charlotte Ramsay (1720–1804), born in New York, was sent to England at the age of 15, and during her long life there won a literary reputation, mainly for her sentimental novels of manners. Her most successful work, The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella (1752), however, burlesqued the lengthy French romances by telling of the adventures of a girl who molded her life on such works. She dramatized this as Angelica; or, Quixote in Petticoats (1758). The Life of Harriot Stuart (1750), The History of Henrietta (1758), Sophia (1762), and Euphemia (1790) resemble the romances she burlesqued in her satire, and the first and last are set partly in America. Her other books include The Sister (1769), a dramatization of Henrietta; Old City Manners (1775), a modernization of John Marston's Eastward Hoe; and Shakespear Illustrated (1753). She was a friend of Johnson, Richardson, Fielding, and Garrick.

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