by Francesco Bartolozzi, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
stipple engraving, published 1793
NPG D13802
© National Portrait Gallery, London
1729-30 born to James & Catherine Ramsay in Gibraltar, returns to England when Charlotte is an infant
1738-39 Ramsay family moves to Albany, New York
1741-42 returns to England
1746-49 works as an actress
1747 marries Alexander Lennox
1748-50 meets and become friends with Samuel Richardson & Samuel Johnson
1751 publishes first novel The Life of Harriot Stuart, translates & publishes The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully
1752 publishes The Female Quixote
1753-54 publishes Shakespear Illustrated (3 volumes)
1756 translates & publishes The Memoirs of Countess of Berci and The History of Count de Cominge
1757 translates & publishes Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon
1758 publishes Henrietta and writes Philander play (never performed)
1760-61 The Lady’s Museum monthly magazine
1761 Sir Joshua Reynolds paints Lennox’s portrait
1762 Sophia published
1764 daughter Henrietta Holles Lennox is born
1767 publishes The History of Eliza
1769 translates & publishes Meditations and Penitential Prayers
1779 Richard Samuel’s portrait of The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain includes Charlotte Lennox, Anna Letita Barbauld, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Griffith, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Linley Sheridan, Cathraine Macaulay, Elizabeth Montagu & Hannah More
1782-2 daughter dies
1790 publishes Euphemia
1792-1804 Lennox subsidized by Royal Literary fund
1793 son emigrates to Baltimore, Maryland
1804 Charlotte dies
Information for timeline culminated from Susan Carlile’s Charlotte Lennox: an Independent Mind (2018) and Norbert Schurer’s edition of Sophia (2008)