Charlotte Dacre

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CD (who began publishing verse in 1798 and novels in 1805) seems, like her sister Sophia King, to reflect in poetry (including early graveyard poems) and fiction the painful, sensational family experiences of her youth.
Black and white print of Charlotte Dacre, shown from the waist up at a three quarter turn. She is wearing a light, simple, high-waisted dress with breasts half bare. She has dark curly hair piled on top of her head with a few loose curls falling around her face. Studio roses stand in the background.

Milestones

Perhaps 1771 or 1772

CD was born at about this date, probably in London, one of three legitimate siblings and three (at least) half-brothers born outside marriage.
Her age of fifty-three at her death, given in obituaries, would place her birth about then. She herself always claimed a birth date ten years later. Either the obituaries were mistaken or she was misleading her public.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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May 1806

CD published her second novel, Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century, in three volumes.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1810

CD 's Zofloya was pirated in a chapbook entitled The Daemon of Venice, by Thomas Tegg , a highly successful publisher in this style.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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1812

CD 's Zofloya was translated into French by Madame de Viterne as Zofloya; ou, Le Maure.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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1822

CD returned to poetry, publishing George IV , A Poem . . . To which are added, lyrics, designed for various melodies.
Feminist Companion Archive.

7 November 1825

CD died in Lancaster Place, London, after a long and painful illness.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Kim Ian Michasiw, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xxx.
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1997

Two new editions of Zofloya appeared in the same year, from Oxford University Press (World's Classics series) and Broadview Press .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Biography

Birth and Background

Perhaps 1771 or 1772

CD was born at about this date, probably in London, one of three legitimate siblings and three (at least) half-brothers born outside marriage.
Her age of fifty-three at her death, given in obituaries, would place her birth about then. She herself always claimed a birth date ten years later. Either the obituaries were mistaken or she was misleading her public.
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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