The Lady's museum : By the author of The Female Quixote.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Lennox, Charlotte, 1729-1804. Trifler. No. 1-11., Author.

Kelley, Hugh, 1739-1777., Author.

Contributor:

Lennox, Charlotte, 1729-1804, ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Poetry, English.

Women--Education--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Fiction--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates ) map ;

Vol. I. [no. 1-5]-vol. II. [no. 6-11]

Other Title:

Lady's museum

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Coote in Pater Noster Row, [1760-1761?]

Notes:

Collects issues of: The lady's museum.

Editor: Charlotte Lennox; collaborator: Hugh Kelly.

Title page is engraved.

Title repeated as caption and running title in individual issues.

Imprints lack date; years of publication from reference sources.

Vol. 1 title page is engraved, with Royal arms above imprint.

Each issue begins with numbered editorial essay: The Trifler, reprinted from Goldsmith's, The Lady's magazine (1759-1760).

Table of contents (2 leaves) bound at end of vol. 2.

With continuous pagination and register.

Includes essays on female education, history, and natural science; with romantic novellas and poetry. Introductory essays are generally satirical.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Volumes lack chronological designations and dates.

Individual issues lack designations; issues numbered from the introductory essays, The Trifler.

Reference sources suggest monthly publication of individual issues.

Cited in:

Small, M.R. Charlotte Ramsay Lennox: 18th c. lady of letters (New Haven, 1935)

NCBEL, II:1303

Roscoe, A292

English Short Title Catalog, P3417.

Related Work:

Lennox, Charlotte, 1729-1804. Trifler. No. 1-11., Author.

OCLC:

642234747