She conceived an ambition to become an actress, which Crossley-Seymour
supposed would doubtless have proved her ruin, had not Mr. Brooke hurried her from a scene so destructive to the happiness, and so pernicious to...
Publishing
Charlotte Brooke
CB
's Reliques of Irish Poetry, was reprinted by subscription in a second Dublin edition, octavo, with the substantial A Memoir of Miss Brooke, dated in April, by Aaron Crossley Seymour
.
Behrendt, Stephen C. “Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: A different sort of other”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
12
, No. 2, pp. 153-75.
167
Brooke, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish Poetry, edited by Lesa Ni Mhunghaile, Irish Manuscripts Commission, p. xxv - xliv.
xxxi
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production
Charlotte Brooke
Some years before her death CB
wrote her tragedy Belisarius on a story popularised by Marmontel
in his Bélisaire, 1767 (which had first reached English in the same year as its French publication). Charles Kemble
Wealth and Poverty
Charlotte Brooke
She was in financial straits, having invested in her cousin Robert Brooke's model industrial village in Kildare, which failed in 1787, and after that entrusted some of the remainder to a trader who went...
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Texts
Crossley-Seymour, Aaron, and Charlotte Brooke. “A Memoir of Miss Brooke”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, J. Christie, 1816, p. 1: iii - cxxviii.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. et al. “Introduction”. Reliques of Irish Poetry, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970, p. v - xv.