Charlotte Forman

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Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words each.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
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She also did an unknown quantity of hack translations, and sent at least ten remarkable personal letters to John Wilkes . She no doubt wrote and published other work which has not been identified.

Milestones

23 October 1715

CF was born, one of a family of five: she had a sister and three elder brothers.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
31
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1754

CF penned the earliest that has been identified of the letters, or essays on political subjects, which she contributed to periodicals under the name of Probus.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
29

23 December 1787

CF died in the parish of St Bride's, on Fleet Street in London, of unrecorded causes, at the age of seventy-two.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
31

Biography

Birth and Background

23 October 1715

CF was born, one of a family of five: she had a sister and three elder brothers.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
31
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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