John Wilkes
became her staunch friend and patron: she built this relationship herself through the wit, charm, and pathos of her letters. Another patron, the Earl of Hillsborough
, proved disappointing as a source of...
Publishing
Charlotte Forman
CF
told Wilkes that she did large quantities of gruelling translation work. During 1768-9 she provided such material first for John Meres
(who, with his wife, became her personal friends) and then, after he went...
Wealth and Poverty
Charlotte Forman
Her release was helped by publishers like John Meres
(whose wife gave her a guinea) and John Newbery
(who gave two guineas and promised her work, but then died). She pawned her clothes, and the...
Timeline
15 November 1768: Publisher John Meres had his business seized...
Writing climate item
15 November 1768
Publisher John Meres
had his business seized for arrears of £500 in the payment of stamp duty exacted on the printing of periodicals.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
