A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lennox, Charlotte
The friend of Johnson and Richardson, was born in 1720, at New York, of which city her father. Colonel Ramsay, was lieutenant-governor. She was sent to this country to be educated; married, was left a widow with one child, and resorted to her pen for subsistence Her latter days were clouded by poverty and sickness. Some of her works are, "The Female Quixote," "Henrietta, Sophia, and Euphemia," "Shakspere Illustrated," two plays, and various translations.
Dr. Johnson assisted her in drawing up proposals for an edition of her works, in three volumes, 4to., but it does not appear to have been published. Dr. Johnson had such an opinion of Mrs. Lennox, that on one occasion, not long before his death, he went so far as to pronounce her talents as a writer superior to those of Mrs. Carter, Miss Hannah More, and Miss Burney. She died January 4th., 1804.