Charlotte Godley

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Standard Name: Godley, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Wynne
Married Name: Charlotte Godley
CG is remembered for her only book: a posthumously published collection of travel letters about the early (mid-nineteenth-century) social life and landscape of New Zealand. Brief excerpts from her journals also survive.
Photograph of a head-and-shoulders sketch of Charlotte Godley, 1877, reproduced in "Letters from Early New Zealand", 1950. She is wearing a high-collared shirt, a bow round her neck fastened with a brooch (perhaps a cameo), and simple round earrings . Her hair is brushed back under a light lace cap.

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Godley, Eveline C., and Charlotte Godley. “Charlotte Godley—An Impression”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xvii - xx.
Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, and Charlotte Godley. “Introduction”. Letters from Early New Zealand, edited by John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken and John Raymond Godley, third Baron Kilbracken, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951, p. xi - xv.
Godley, Charlotte. Letters from Early New Zealand. Bowering Press, 1936.
Godley, Charlotte. Letters from Early New Zealand. Editor Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, third Baron, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1951.