Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to be written and edited by Charlotte Lennox (it was marketed as “by the Author of The Female Quixote“), the Lady’s Museum educated and informed its readership through a variety of media including science, satire, letters to and from the editor, poetry, translation, history, philosophy, geography, travel writing, educational treatises, and the first serialized novel, _The History of Harriot and Sophia_, which Lennox would later publish as the novel _Sophia_. (Summary by Kelly Plante)
Chapters
1 THE LADY'S MUSEUM 1 min 2 THE LADY'S MUSEUM. The TRIFLER [Number VI.] 7 min 3 TO THE AUTHOR of the TRIFLER 8 min 4 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED 24 min 5 ESSAY ON THE Original Inhabitants of GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED 26 min 6 THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE CONTINUED 10 min 7 THE HISTORY OF BIANCA CAPELLO CONTINUED 11 min 8 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED 3 min 9 PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES CONTINUED 10 min 10 THE LADY's GEOGRAPHY 6 min 11 DESCRIPTION of the Island of CEYLON 4 min 12 THE LADY's MUSEUM. The TRIFLER. [NUMBER VII.] 13 min 13 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED 28 min 14 ESSAY ON THE Original Inhabitants of GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED 27 min 15 THE HISTORY OF BIANCA CAPELLO CONCLUDED 14 min 16 THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE CONTINUED 20 min 17 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED 14 min 18 THE LADY'S MUSEUM. The TRIFLER. [NUMBER VIII.] 10 min 19 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED 30 min 20 TO THE Author of the LADY'S MUSEUM 1 min 21 ESSAY ON THE Original Inhabitants of GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED 24 min 22 THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE CONTINUED 25 min 23 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED 9 min 24 PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES CONTINUED 12 min 25 THE LADY's MUSEUM. The TRIFLER. [NUMBER IX.] 5 min 26 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED 29 min 27 On reading HUTCHINSON on the PASSIONS 2 min 28 SHALUM, Master of MOUNT TIRZAH, to HILPA, mistress of the Valleys 3 min 29 HILPA, Mistress of the Valleys, to SHALUM, Master of Mount Tirzah. By the same 3 min 30 The MORNING. By the same 2 min 31 An ODE. By a LADY 2 min 32 THE HISTORY OF THE COUNT DE COMMINGE CONCLUDED 18 min 33 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED 14 min 34 ESSAY ON THE Original Inhabitants of Great Britain, CONCLUDED 3 min 35 THE HISTORY OF THE PRINCESS PADMANI 26 min 36 THE LADY's GEOGRAPHY 15 min 37 THE LADY's MUSEUM. The TRIFLER. [NUMBER X.] 4 min 38 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA CONTINUED 23 min 39 THE JUDGMENT of PARIS. A POEM 9 min 40 The following Life of VANDYCK is published from a Manuscript, communicated to the Author of the LADY's MUSEUM by a Person of Distinction 7 min 41 THE TALE of GENEURA 42 min 42 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONTINUED 13 min 43 THE LADY's GEOGRAPHY 16 min 44 THE LADY's MUSEUM. The TRIFLER. [NUMBER XI.] 2 min 45 A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SOCRATES and ARISTARCHUS 9 min 46 THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT and SOPHIA CONCLUDED 35 min 47 THE LIFE OF Sir ANTHONY VANDYCK CONCLUDED 19 min 48 TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONCLUDED 20 min 49 A POETICAL EPISTLE From BUSY, the Lap-dog, in London, to SNOWBALL, the Buck-hound, in Windsor Forest 4 min 50 To ISMENE playing on a Lute 2 min 51 PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES CONCLUDED 12 min 52 THE LADY'S GEOGRAPHY 6 min
