CHRONOLOGY

1729/1730	Born to James and Catherine Ramsay, between March 11, 1729, and March 9, 1730, in Gibraltar. The family returns to England while Charlotte is still an infant.
1739	Ramsay family moves from England to Albany, New York, where James Ramsay is captain of an independent company.
1742	James Ramsay dies in Albany, New York (March 10). Soon after, Charlotte returns to England and is patronized by Lady Cecilia Isabella Finch and the Marchioness of Rockingham.
1746	Plays Lavinia in The Fair Penitent.
1747	Marries Alexander Lennox at St. George’s Chapel, Mayfair, London (October 6). Poems on Several Occasions published in London (November). “Charlotte Ramsay” appears on the dedication page.
1748	Acts in a play at Richmond.
1750	The Life of Harriot Stuart, “written by herself,” published in London (Dublin, 1751; Amsterdam, 1752; London, 1771).
	Stars as the main protagonist, Almeria, in Congreve’s The Mourning Bride.
	“The Art of Coquetry” reprinted from Poems on Several Occasions and “The Birthday Ode to the Princess of Wales,” by “Mrs. Lennox,” in Gentleman’s Magazine (November 20).
1752	The Female Quixote published in London (London, 1752; Dublin, 1752; Hamburg and Leipzig, 1754; Amsterdam, 1762; Dublin, 1763; Lyon, 1773; London, 1783; London, 1799; London, from Paris, 1801; Madrid, 1808; and in British Novelists 24 and 25, 1810 and 1820).
1753–1754	Shakespear Illustrated (3 vols.) published in London (Philadelphia, 1809).
1756	The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, translated from the French, published in London (London, 1757; Edinburgh, 1760; London, 1761; London, 1763; Edinburgh, 1770; Edinburgh, 1773; London, 1778; London, 1778; Dublin, 1781; London, 1805; London, 1810; London, 1812; Edinburgh, 1812; Philadelphia, 1817; Edinburgh, 1819; London, 1819; London, 1856).
	The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci, translated from the French, published in London.
	The Memoirs of Count de Cominge, translated from the French, published in London.
1757	Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon, translated from the French, published in London (Dublin, 1758).
1758	Philander (dramatic pastoral) published in London, but never performed (Dublin, 1758). Henrietta published in London and in Dublin (Lausanne and Paris, 1760; London, 1761; London, 1769; London, 1770; Frankfurt, 1771; Paris, 1775; Stockholm, 1781–1782; Dublin, 1786; London, 1787; Paris, 1789; London, 1798).
1760	The Greek Theater of Father Brumoy, translated from the French, published in London.
1760 (March)–1761 (February)	The Lady’s Museum, monthly periodical published in London. This included the serialized novel “The History of Harriot and Sophia,” later the novel Sophia; The History of the Count de Cominge; “History of the Dutchess of Beaufort” from The Memoirs of Sully; and some of Lennox’s poems.
1761	Lennox’s portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which is later engraved by Cooke and Bartolozzi.
1762	Sophia, previously “The History of Harriot and Sophia,” published in London (Paris, 1770).
1764	Names and ending changed in The History of the Count de Cominge and published as The History of the Marquis of Lussan and Isabella.
1765	Lennox’s daughter, Harriot Holles Lennox, baptized (April 28).
1767	The History of Eliza published in London.
1769	The Sister staged by George Colman (February 18) and published twice that year in London and once in Dublin (Hamburg, 1776; Vienna, 1776; Frankfurt, 1777; Moscow, 1788; Regensburg, Germany, 1802).
1772	Lennox’s son, George Louis (or Lewis) Lennox, born.
1774	Meditations and Penitential Prayers translated from the French, published in London.
1775	Old City Manners staged in London (November 9), followed by seven more performances and publication in London.
1778	Appears in Richard Samuel’s portrait The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain, which also includes Elizabeth Carter, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Angelica Kauffman, Frances Sheridan, Catherine Macaulay, Hannah More, Elizabeth Montague, and Elizabeth Griffith.
1781–1783	Lennox’s daughter, Harriot Holles, dies.
1783	George Lennox’s short fiction “Annette: A Fairy Tale” serialized in the British Magazine and Review (October and December) and reprinted in the Edinburgh Weekly Magazine (1783–1784), the New Novelist’s Magazine (1786), the Hibernian (1783–1784), and the Gleaner (1805).
1787	George Lennox’s short novel The Duke of Milan printed in the New Novelist’s Magazine (April–May) and Weekly Entertainer.
1790	Euphemia published in London.
1792	Subsidized by the Royal Literary Fund until her death.
1793	George Lennox emigrates to Baltimore, Maryland (August).
1804	Dies in Dean’s Yard, Westminster, and is buried in Broad Chapel.