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
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    • WRITE AN ESSAY
    • GLOSS AN ARTICLE
  • FURTHER READING

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA

“The History of Harriot and Sophia” is a serialized novel within the periodical that offered middle-class women didactic lessons on how to be successful in the competitive marriage market with a curriculum of informal intellectual education, paired with an example of a woman who attracts a suitable suitor, and achieves happiness in her married life with an intellectually matched husband. It’s focus is on the differences between Harriot’s “polite” or boarding school education in comparison to Sophia’s “intellectual” informal education. In 1762, the serialized novel was revised and re-titled Sophia (modern edition available through Broadview Press).

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA

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HARRIOT and Sophia were the daughters of a gentleman, who, having spent a good paternal inheritance before he was five and thirty, was reduced to […]

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MR. Herbert having recovered from the astonishment into which he had been thrown by the strange behaviour of Miss Darnley, endeavoured to comfort her mother, […]

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SOphia, as if afraid she had said too much, stopped abruptly, and, fixing her eyes on the ground, continued silent, and lost in thought. Mr. […]

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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 […]

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DOLLY, though encouraged by the sweet condescension of Sophia, who, to inspire her with confidence, freely acknowledged the situation of her own heart, blushed so […]

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IT was not long before Sophia had an account of Sir Charles’s visit from her mother, who, forgetting the part she had acted before, wrote […]

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WHEN they arrived at Mrs. Lawson’s, Sophia, who little expected such a visit, had wandered, as usual, in the wood, accompanied with Dolly: Mrs. Lawson […]

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WHEN Mr. Herbert returned from his walk, and met the curate, and his little family at supper, Sophia, who heedfully observed him, saw an alteration […]

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED

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THE loss of Sir Charles having clouded all Sophia’s views of happiness, she earnestly intreated Mr. Herbert’s permission to settle herself in that humble station […]

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED

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THE first thought that struck the amazed Sophia was, that Sir Charles, either following the motions of his natural inconstancy, or in revenge of her […]

THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT and SOPHIA CONCLUDED

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SOPHIA was not deceived when she imagined she had seen Sir Charles, it was really he who had rode by her window, and it was […]

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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