Comedy had already, a generation earlier, in Biddy Tipkin, made sport of the romance-reading girls of the day. But the satire was new in fiction. And it was carried out with a fullness and accuracy of details possible only to one who had herself been a traveler in enchanted realms. Mrs. Lennox must at some time have been as devoted to French fiction as even Dorothy Osborne and Mrs. Pepys in the preceding century. Her story is long-drawn-out and improbable, but the cleverness with which Arabella and Lucy parody Don Quixote and Sancho Panza gives the book a notable place among the English followers of Cervantes. _The Spiritual Quixote_ (1773), a satire on the Methodists, and _The Benevolent Quixote_ (1791), a satire on mawkish ideas of charity, are inferior in vivacity and interest to Mrs. Lennox's work. In 1753-54 Mrs. Lennox brought out _Shakespeare Illustrated; or, Novels and Histories on which the Plays are ... founded, collected and translated_, an uncritical piece of work according to present standards, but historically significant as one of the earliest attempts to present Shakespeare's sources.[363] A two-volume novel, _Henrietta_, in 1758, was dramatized as a didactic comedy under the title _The Sister_,[364] and brought out at Covent Garden in 1769. Though Miss Mattocks played the chief part, and the Prologue and Epilogue were respectively by Colman and Goldsmith, the play met with but moderate success. In 1760-61 Mrs. Lennox edited _The Ladies Museum_, in which were illustrated articles on natural history written especially for ladies, philosophical discussions simplified for ladies, and continued stories of the love-adventure type evidently calculated for the same tastes. The most interesting character drawing is that of an incipient Mrs. Malaprop in the person of a Mrs. Gibbons. If any annals were extant of Mrs. Lennox's life we should doubtless find records of continuous study. At least we constantly get new proofs of her learning. _The Memoirs of M. de Bethune, Duke of Sully_, in three volumes in 1756,[365] _The Memoirs of the Countess Berci_, in two volumes in the same year, and _Memoirs for the History of Madame de Maintenon_, in 1757, show not only her mastery of French, but very steady application to intellectual tasks. In 1759 she had what might be considered her crowning honor as a learned lady. She was chosen to edit a translation of Brumoy's _Greek Theatre_. In collaboration with her were Dr. Johnson, Dr. Gregory Sharpe, Dr. Grainger, and John Bourrya, men of recognized standing as scholars.[366]