Charlotte McCarthy
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was a mid-eighteenth-century writer of common genres like poetry and romance in idiosyncratic forms. She voices strong and equally idiosyncratic social, political, and theological opinions. Her expressions of female friendship sound like love. She was an Irish patriot who took a serious interest in denominational doctrine. In later years her interest in religion became pervasive and somewhat eccentric.
Biography
Background
The date of
's birth (presumably somewhere in Ireland) is unknown, but is probably (and perhaps well) before 1720.
If she was at least twenty when she travelled to London seeking subscribers for publication, and if at least five years constituted the several which elapsed before she achieved this, then she would have to be born before 1720, and she may in fact have been significantly older than this.