Charlotte Elizabeth (1790–1846)
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Werken van Charlotte Elizabeth
Judah's Lion 3 exemplaren
The simple flower and other tales 2 exemplaren
Second Causes; or Up and Be Doing 2 exemplaren
The works of Charlotte Elizabeth 2 exemplaren
The Rockite: An Irish Story 2 exemplaren
War with the saints : Count Raymond of Toulouse, and the crusade against the Albigenses under Pope Innocent III 2 exemplaren
Chapters on Flowers 2 exemplaren
Personal recollections 2 exemplaren
The Simple Flower 1 exemplaar
Helen Fleetwood. By Charlotte Elizabeth 1 exemplaar
Posthumous and other poems 1 exemplaar
Glimpses of the past — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Juvenile Tales for Juvenile Readers 1 exemplaar
Glimpses of the Past 1 exemplaar
Passing Thoughts 1 exemplaar
Letters From Ireland 1 exemplaar
The Wrongs of Women 1 exemplaar
Principalities and powers in heavenly places 1 exemplaar
Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers 1 exemplaar
The Protestant annual. 1841. 1 exemplaar
Newfoundland Fisherman: a True Story 1 exemplaar
The English martyrology abridged from Fox 1 exemplaar
The history of Peter Thomson ; The premium ; The dying sheep ; and, The Bible the best book 1 exemplaar
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth: Vol. II 1 exemplaar
Conformity. By Charlotte Elizabeth 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1790-10-01
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1846-07-12
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
Nova Scotia, Canada
Kilkenny, Ireland - Beroepen
- polemicist
novelist
women's rights advocate
social reformer
religious writer
children's book author (toon alle 8)
journalist
teacher - Relaties
- More, Hannah (friend)
- Korte biografie
- Charlotte Elizabeth was the pen name of Charlotte Elizabeth Browne Tonna. She was born in Norwich, England, a daughter of Michael Browne, rector of St. Giles's Church and minor canon of Norwich Cathedral, and grew up living within the cathedral grounds. At age 10, she lost her hearing and went on to become a pioneer of deaf education. In 1813, she married George Phelan, an Irish army officer, and accompanied him on his posting with his regiment to Nova Scotia, Canada for about two years. They returned to live on Phelan's family estate near Kilkenny. The marriage was unhappy, and the couple separated about 1820. She moved to London and pursued a writing career under the pseudonym "Charlotte Elizabeth" to protect her income from her husband. She was one of the first writers to use fiction to give voice to the underprivileged and marginalized members of English society, and anticipated the works of other socially conscious writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. Her books introduced many middle-class readers to the inhuman working conditions for female and child workers in factories during the Industrial Revolution. She published numerous novels, religious pamphlets, moral tales for children, poems, and essays, and edited and wrote for the influential Christian Lady’s Magazine and The Protestant Magazine. She was a zealous proselytizer for Protestantism, especially to Irish Catholics. Her most popular novel was Helen Fleetwood: A Tale of the Factories, first serialized in The Christian Lady’s Magazine and then published in book form in 1841, which exposed the conditions of children working in cotton mills. In 1841, following the death of her first husband, which released her from the social embarrassment of living on her own, she remarried to Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna, a fellow ultra-evangelical 22 years her junior. That same year, she published her autobiography, Personal Recollections. She died at age 55, probably from cancer, and her works fell into obscurity for about 100 years until being reassessed by feminist literary critics.
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 38
- Leden
- 95
- Populariteit
- #197,646
- Waardering
- 1.5
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 12