Charlotte Lennox

Joseph Baretti taught Lennox Italian and several helped her translate The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy the most influential French study of Greek tragedy at mid-18th century. She was baptised Barbara Ramsay. Her father James Ramsay was a Scottish captain in the Royal Navy and her mother was Scottish and Irish.

Charlotte Lennox née Ramsay (c. She is most famous now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Richardson but Charlotte Lennox had a long career and wrote poetry prose and drama. 1730 – 4 January 1804) was an English author and poet.