Authority Cited: [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote, Shakespeare Illustrated
Author name and dates: Charlotte Lennox (1729/30 -1804) Birth date per "Charlotte Lennox's Birth Date and Place," Carlile, Susan, Notes and Queries, 2004 Dec, Vol. 51(4), pp.390-92. (Thanks to I.M. Grundy for pointing out this source.) At the age of 25, Lennox is the youngest cited in the 1755 Dictionary!
BKG Bio-tweet: Author: novels, play; poet; transl.; mentored and highly regarded by SJ & Richardson; thought unladylike, volatile by women
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 20 Lennox cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four of these cites do not appear in the 1773 Dict. No Lennox cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Lennox's name does not appear on the title page of the works cited. The cites, by the title of the work, appear only in Dict. Vol. 2. The Female Quixote edition which SJ used has not been determined. Another Lennox title was Lot 64 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed.: Lennox's Brumoy's greek theatre, 3v. 1759.]
Author name and dates: Charlotte Lennox (1729/30 -1804) Birth date per "Charlotte Lennox's Birth Date and Place," Carlile, Susan, Notes and Queries, 2004 Dec, Vol. 51(4), pp.390-92. (Thanks to I.M. Grundy for pointing out this source.) At the age of 25, Lennox is the youngest cited in the 1755 Dictionary!
BKG Bio-tweet: Author: novels, play; poet; transl.; mentored and highly regarded by SJ & Richardson; thought unladylike, volatile by women
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: About 20 Lennox cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four of these cites do not appear in the 1773 Dict. No Lennox cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. Lennox's name does not appear on the title page of the works cited. The cites, by the title of the work, appear only in Dict. Vol. 2. The Female Quixote edition which SJ used has not been determined. Another Lennox title was Lot 64 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed.: Lennox's Brumoy's greek theatre, 3v. 1759.]
- The female Quixote; or, the adventures of Arabella. In two volumes, The second edition: revised and corrected. 1752, London: printed for A. Millar, over-against Catharine-Street in the Strand; pique; simplicity; singular; solemnity; suppose; talent; view (1755 Dict. only); visionary; volubility; wildly
- Shakespear illustrated: or the novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. In two volumes. By the author of The female Quixote. 1753, London : printed for A. Millar in the Strand;
- Shakespear illustrated: or the novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded, collected and translated from the original authors. With critical remarks. The third and last volume. By the author of The female Quixote. 1754, London: printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; sally (v.3, p.125); starry (v.3, p.79); unravel (v.3, p.268); uncle (v.2, p.274); unnecessary (1755 Dict. only, v.1, p.35); virtue (v.3, p.125); wherever (v.1, p.24); whetstone (v.3, p.62); wonderful (1755 Dict. only, v.2, p.80); wreath (1755 Dict. only, v.3, p.126 ); [BKG Note: Vol. 3 of Shakespear Illustrated, published in 1754, is perhaps the most recently published work from which SJ took quotations for the 1755 Dict..]