Lady Charlotte Elliot

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Author of three volumes of poetry published in the second half of the nineteenth century, LCE frequently saw her work linked to that of other Scottish writers. Her poems draw on religious and mythological themes, and often focus on women in demanding situations. Some resemble the work of her English contemporary Augusta Webster in their use of dramatic form to explore female subjectivity, and suggest at least a proto-feminist sensibility.
  • BirthName: Charlotte Carnegie
  • Married: Fothringham; Elliot
  • Pseudonym: Florenz
  • Styled: Lady Charlotte Elliot
    She acquired the courtesy title of Lady in her teens, when the family earldom (attainted more than a century earlier when they were Jacobites) was restored to her eldest brother.

Milestones

22 July 1839

Charlotte Carnegie, later the poet LCE , was born at Kinnaird, Perthshire, in Scotland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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1867

Charlotte Fothringham (later LCE ) was a widow following the death of her first husband when, under the pseudonym Florenz, she published her first work, Stella and Other Poems.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

15 January 1880

LCE died at the age of only forty; her second husband survived her by less than a year.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2726 (1880): 124
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

September 1880

A poem by LCE , Lux in Tenebris, appeared posthumously in Fraser's Magazine. It was reprinted in the US journal The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature in December of the same year.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.

Biography

Birth

22 July 1839

Charlotte Carnegie, later the poet LCE , was born at Kinnaird, Perthshire, in Scotland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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