Charlotte Dacre

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Charlotte Dacre (* 1771 or 1772 as Charlotte King ; † November 7, 1825 in London as Charlotte Byrne ) was a British writer . She also wrote under the name Rosa Matilda . She became known through her Gothic Novels .

Charlotte Dacre was the daughter of moneylender Jonathan King (originally Jacob Rey ). Together with her sister Sophia, Charlotte Dacre published the collection of poems Trifles from Helicon in 1798 . The poems by Dacres contained therein were published in 1805 together with others in the volume Hours of Solitude . In the same year Dacre's first Gothic novel, Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer, appeared . 1806 followed Zofloya; or, the Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century . Especially Zoflaya was very successful and was translated into French in 1812. During 1807, The Libertine was published in three editions; In 1816 the work was published in French. Her last novel was The Passions from 1811.

Charlotte Dacre was married to Morning Post editor Nicholas Byrne and had three children. She died in 1825 after a long illness.

Works

  • Trifles from Helicon (1798)
  • Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer (1805)
  • Hours of Solitude (1805)
  • Zofloya; or, the Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century (1806)
  • The Libertine (1807)
  • The Passions (1811)
  • George the Fourth (1822)

literature

  • Adriana Craciun: Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies . In: Fatal Women of Romanticism . Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-81668-8
  • James A. Dunn: Charlotte Dacre and the Feminization of Violence. In: Nineteenth-Century Literature Vol. 53, No. 3 (December 1998), pp. 307-327
  • Mireille Magnier: Zefloya et Le Moine. In: Autour de l'Id & de Nature. Histoire des Idees et Civilization. Pédagogie et Divers: Actes du Congnis de Saint-Etienne (1975). Librairie Marcel Didier, Paris 1975, pp. 227-231

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charlotte Dacre, Adriana Craciun (Ed.): Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century. Broadview Press, 1997. ISBN 1551111462 .
  2. ^ Duncan Wu: Romanticism: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2000. ISBN 0631222693
personal data
SURNAME Dacre, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Charlotte (maiden name); Byrne, Charlotte (married name); Matilda, Rosa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1771 or 1772
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1825
Place of death London