Cassandra, Lady Hawke

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CLH was the author of a single, sentimental, pompously styled novel published in 1788, as well as of unpublished works.

Milestones

28 February 1746

Cassandra Turner (later CLH ) was born at Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, the youngest of a large family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Burke, John, editor. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s Peerage.

By July 1788

HC's single novel, Julia de Gramont, was published under her name, as the Right Honorable Lady H****.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering.
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Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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13 November 1813

Cassandra, Lady Hawke , died some months short of her sixtieth birthday.
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Biography

When she published, she did so with the full form of her title, lightly veiled.

Birth and Family