Teaching the Ladys Museum and Sophia: Imperialism, Early Feminism, and Beyond

This essay argues for the value of teaching Charlotte Lennoxs periodical The Ladys Museum (1760-61) in undergraduate literature, history, media studies, postcolonial, and gender studies classrooms. magazine, which includes one first serialized novels Harriot Sophia (later published as stand-alone novel (1762)) encouraged debate proto-discipline topics geography, literary criticism, astronomy, botany, zoology. offers a flexible module, can be taught to five days, that focuses on themes early female education imperialism using full or excerpted portions essays from eidolon, Of Studies Proper Women, Importance Education Daughters, Philosophy Ladies, Metamorphoses Animals, Several Changes Observable Animal Life, Natural History Formica-Leo, Lion Pismire, Some Reflections Deductions Drawn Works Nature General, Geography, Original Inhabitants Great Britain, Princess Padmani, well (1762). It also inaugurates new resource, http://www.ladysmuseum.com Muse um Project , is an open-access edition designed by Kelley Plante Karenza Sutton-Bennett text redacted versions variety other pedagogical materials.