Henrietta Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne

A few years later (while Alexander Lennox journeyed to Scotland pursuing his claim to nobility) CL was employed as resident housekeeper at Somerset House, where the Duchess of Newcastle had instituted lodgings for the needy.

CL , not her husband, seems to have been always the family bread-winner, and she was always struggling with poverty. The Duchess of Newcastle (a grand-daughter of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough ) helped her with...

A second edition followed on 19 March 1761. It featured the first appearance of Lennox's name on a title-page, and a dedication (supplied by Johnson ; the first edition had none) to the Duchess of Newcastle