The Lady's Museum Project

The Lady's Museum Project

An In-Progress Critical Edition and Learning Community

  • ABOUT THE MAGAZINE
    • BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE
    • LENNOX AND “FEMALE EDUCATION”
    • WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
    • IMAGES IN THE LADY’S MUSEUM: AN ANNOTATED COLLECTION
    • CHARLOTTE LENNOX: ECO-FEMINIST?
  • ABOUT THIS PROJECT
    • EDITING PROTOCOLS
    • HOW TO USE THIS EDITION
    • SITE OVERVIEW
    • PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS
    • AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
    • Reflections on Interning with the Lady’s Museum Project 
  • Enter The Lady’s Museum
  • ABRIDGED TEACHING EDITION
    • CURRICULUM OPTIONS
    • COURSE READER
    • SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENTS
    • CLOSE READING ASSIGNMENTS
    • DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • TEACHING EARLY MAGAZINES
    • TEACHING WOMEN’S ROLES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICALS
    • Teaching Early Magazines via Public Humanities Internships
    • Teaching Early Magazines using Editorial Glossing Activities
    • Teaching Early Magazines by Recording and Managing Audiobook Projects
  • CONTRIBUTE
    • WRITE AN ESSAY
    • GLOSS AN ARTICLE
  • FURTHER READING

ISSUE 4

THE LADY’s MUSEUM.
The TRIFLER. [NUMBER IV.]

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

MADAM, IAM one of your readers, and bear you that sort of good will which we naturally feel for persons who contribute to our amusement. […]

TO THE Author of the LADY’S MUSEUM.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

MADAM, THE gaiety with which you set out in your first paper, and the agreeable manner in which you acknowledge your fondness for admiration, persuaded […]

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

AS soon as Mr Herbert went away, Harriot, who had been listening, and had heard all that past, entered the room. The virtue and strength […]

TO THE Author of the LADY’S MUSEUM.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

MADAM, I HAVE lately been at one of the most awful solemnities in this kingdom, or perhaps in any kingdom in the world; the trial […]

TO THE Author of the LADY’S MUSEUM.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

MADAM, WHEN I sent you an account of the trial and condemnation of Lawrence, late earl Ferrers, I did not imagine that I should have […]

ESSAY ON THE Original Inhabitants of GREAT BRITAIN CONTINUED.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

FROM this time may be dated the subjection of our island to the Roman emperors, or, more properly perhaps, to their legates, and propraetors. It […]

TO THE Author of the LADY’s MUSEUM.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

MADAM, YOUR receiving and publishing the letters of other people, when without foreign assistance your Museum would be much more to the pleasure of your […]

[The following Treatise on the Education of Daughters is written by the celebrated Archbishop of Cambray, and translated by a Friend of the Author of the Museum.]

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

CHAP. I. Of the Importance of the Education of Daughters. NOTHING is more neglected than the education of daughters; custom, and the caprice of mothers, […]

THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE CONTINUED.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

I passed the night in the utmost agitation, and after having formed a thousand different projects, all equally fruitless and impracticable, it came suddenly into […]

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES CONTINUED.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

Of the Metamorphoses of ANIMALS, and the several Changes observable in ANIMAL LIFE. BUT the most complete, and at the same time the most universal […]

The Natural HISTORY of the FORMICA-LEO, or LION-PISMIRE.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

Nature who has with the utmost care allotted to every species of animals its peculiar place of residence and its peculiar kind of food, has […]

THE LADY’s GEOGRAPHY CONTINUED.

August 30, 2021 Kelly Plante 0

DOWNLOAD/PRINT PDF OF INSTALLMENT Of the MANNERS and CUSTOMS of the Inhabitants of AMBOYNA. THE men and women do not go together to these feasts, […]

LADY'S MUSEUM CONTENTS

SERIES

  • THE TRIFLER
  • THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA
  • THE HISTORY OF THE DUTCHESS OF BEAUFORT
  • THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE
  • PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES
  • THE LADY’S GEOGRAPHY
  • ESSAY ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN
  • TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS
  • THE HISTORY OF BIANCA CAPELLO
  • THE LIFE OF SIR ANTHONY VANDYCK

GENRES

PARATEXT

  • LETTERS
  • POETRY
  • HISTORY
  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • TRANSLATIONS
  • TREATISES
  • DIALOGUE

BROWSE BY VOLUME OR ISSUE

VOL. 1

  • ISSUE 1
  • ISSUE 2
  • ISSUE 3
  • ISSUE 4
  • ISSUE 5

VOL. 2

  • ISSUE 6
  • ISSUE 7
  • ISSUE 8
  • ISSUE 9
  • ISSUE 10
  • ISSUE 11
  • THE MAGAZINE
  • THE COURSE READER
  • THE LADY’S LIBRIVOX
  • THE GLOSSING ACTIVITY
  • THE READING LIST
  • THE EDITORS

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