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The Lady’s Museum (1760–61) was among the most important early periodicals largely written by one of the most important eighteenth-century authors, Charlotte Lennox, whose multigenre, proto-feminist writing is beginning to receive the critical and pedagogical attention it deserves. Yet no modern edition of the text has existed—until now. Launched in 2021, the Lady’s Museum Project is presenting the first critical edition of—and learning community around—Lennox’s Museum in three open-access formats to encourage the widest possible readership: a non-specialist digital, interactive edition of the text and LibriVox audiobook intended for public and undergraduate-student audiences, and a specialist digital edition intended for scholars’ use—and participation (forthcoming). 2023 brought the completion of the teaching edition, which has been used in a variety of institutions across the U.S. and Canada, from 1000-level undergraduate to 5000-level graduate courses, and in undergraduate- and graduate-level internships designed to prepare interns for careers in editing and publishing, with a focus on transcending traditional teaching, editing, publishing, and disciplinary hierarchies and conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Lady's Museum (1760-61) "by the Author of The Female Quixote" was an important early magazine primarily edited and written by the influential eighteenth-century author Charlotte Lennox. In this essay, we describe our theoretical and methodological approaches to editing, publishing, teaching, learning, and thinking with Lennox and our teams of co-workers in the Lady's Museum Project, the first critical and digital social edition of the periodical (at Ladysmuseum.com). We update this proto-feminist text in an intersectional feminist bibliographical praxis designed to encourage teamwork, flatten user/editor relationships, and create a dynamic audio and visual version of the text to accommodate multiple learning modes. This essay highlights the social edition as a counterpublic and posits Lennox's notion of "trifling" as a digital humanities methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]