Charlotte Chanter

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Standard Name: Chanter, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Kingsley
Married Name: Charlotte Chanter
CC wrote one novel, Over the Cliffs, 1860, which anticipated in some respects the sensation genre, as well as a book about ferns and a collection of children's animal stories which was co-authored with her husband.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ was an advocate of realist novels with well drawn characters and a coherent plot. Her review of Charlotte Chanter 's Over the Cliffs compared the plot to a child's attempt at drawing a picture,—the...

Timeline

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

Writing climate item

1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).

Texts

Chanter, Charlotte. Ferny Combes: A Ramble After Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of Devonshire. Lovell Reeve, 1856.
Chanter, Charlotte, and John Mill Chanter. Jack Frost and Betty Snow. Griffith and Farran, 1858.
Chanter, Charlotte. Over the Cliffs. Smith, Elder, 1860.
Chanter, Charlotte. Over the Cliffs. Smith, Elder, 1866.