Lady Charlotte Bury

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Standard Name: Bury, Lady Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Styled: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Married Name: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
Married Name: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury
Pseudonym: A Lady
Pseudonym: A Lady of Rank
Pseudonym: The Authoress of Flirtation
Pseudonym: The Authoress of the Disinherited and Flirtation
Pseudonym: The Author of The History of a Flirt
Nickname: Lady Frances Juliana Flummery
Used Form: the author of The Disinherited
Used Form: C. C. Bury
Used Form: C. M. B.
Used Form: Lady Charlotte S. M. Campbell
LCB had the example in her family of genteel women whose writing was an important source of income to them. Her relations had addressed some of her favourite fictional topics: marriage into the nobility from a position well below it, and re-marriage after divorce. She wrote poems as an adolescent, and published them before her first marriage. From this point in her life she was always short of money. Her first novel dates from the years of her first widowhood, and her output was highest during her second marriage. From the diary she kept while at Court, she printed non-fictional scandal memoirs on subject-matter similar to that of her seventeen or more novels—the life and scandals of fashionable society—but her own attitude, often reinforced by heavy-handed authorial comment at the ends of novels, is generally censorious as well as sentimental. She seldom offers happy endings: whether grave or trivial, the sins or mistakes of her characters most often lead them to suffering and disaster. The most scandalous and arguably the most interesting selections of her diary remain almost unknown.

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Wealth and Poverty Alison Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn 's elder brother had sold the family estates, to pay off debts, in 1748; hence the need for Patrick to find employment. Patrick had saved the duke once before 1750, by preventing him...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Damer
John Damer had lost £20,000 at the gaming tables in a single night not long before his death—a sum to cast a shadow over his expectations of inheriting £30,000.
Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.
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In fact after John's death...

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