Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Charlotte Forman
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Standard Name: Forman, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Forman
Pseudonym: Probus
Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF
was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words each.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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She also did an unknown quantity of hack translations, and sent at least ten remarkable personal letters to John Wilkes
. She no doubt wrote and published other work which has not been identified.
The magazine was published through Newbery
, as by the author of The Female Quixote. Its launch was hailed by Charlotte Forman
(wrapped in the cloak of a male pseudonym) in the Public Ledger...
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Texts
Forman, Charlotte. Letters to John Wilkes. http://British Library.